How can I tailor a one hour lesson for a French woman, who calls herself a beginner, and needs basics like ordering in a restaurant, getting a taxi, etc. Mostly oral stuff.

It's been a while since I've done TEFL and I was always bad with beginners.

Any ideas for a lesson plan?
i live in france, and material is expensive... and we can't just go out and prictice with other natives. i'm it.

You can find books at the bookstore or go on Amazon.com and find beginner ESL books. I like the real-time suggestion by sleepwalker. It is impossible to do something like that when you have a class full like I do. But also, a great esl website that you can check out for some ideas is www.eslcafe.com it has level appropriate activities to help teachers and students and a forum for both teachers and students if you have a question. You can get feedback from teachers who actually do this stuff everyday. Ask a local restaurant if they have any old menus that you can have. I did that and I have menus from Olive Garden. That makes it easy to do roleplay. Teach the vocabulary first. Give her roles where she has to do most of the talking. If you are doing more talking, you really aren't teaching. I would check to see if there are any ESL workshops in your area. That would be helpful to you in order to get a refresher and it is always good to go to workshops because you gain new ideas and techniques that you can tailor into your own teaching style. You can also bounce off ideas with other teachers in your field.
Beginner's are the hardest group to teach, but if you are a patient person, this level is the most rewarding! Their progress is more rapid. Good Luck and I hope this helped some! :)

Look at any beginners textbook - the tapes usually cover what you're looking for.

I had to do this some time ago and I actually just took the person out and we did it in real time and then discussed things over coffee.

Good luck