My big problem

I got myself a job which started just last Monday. What do I do? I teach. Yes, but not actually a teacher. It's more like a tutor. I teach English to Korean students. I liked the job since I already had teaching experiences before, and I enjoy the company of children. They are fun to talk to, and they are fun to be with.

My student is on category Beginner 2--Intermediate, which will probably give you a hint: he speaks well yet he has limited vocabulary. He have some difficulties in pronouncing some words but when corrected, he could easily adapt. Also, he needs to improve his writing skills. Not his penmanship, but his sentence constructions. But overall he makes sentences that makes sense.

Yet I have a big problem: stating that, how can I actually teach him to write profound, thought-generating essays? How should I start? Well more problems: the school I work for wanted us to do essays every Friday, starting this Friday, and they wanted different types of essays (declarative, persuasive, informative, etc..).

Now how can an eleven year old kid, with limited vocabulary, write a thought-generating, informative, profound essay?

Well I tried to ask him to give me some topics that we could talk about, and topics we could write about. And most of the topics he gave me were so simple they could not be expounded to produce a good essay. And I suggested some topics which he didn't like, so we discarded it.

Now I'm in a pinch. Tomorrow will be the day we have to make a draft. With fingers crossed, I'm hoping everything will turn out okay.