As long as its not a busy airfield where you will annoy the sh+t out of other pilots the instructor could start with wide circuits and long final to give the student the thinking space they need.
Nah pace everything and I mean everything should be done away from the circuit until you only need to do a bit of RT work, situational awarness and the waggling the peddles and controls at the bottom for landing.
I completely agree with BPF that going into the circuit before the student has cracked the preceding lessons just causes the whole thing to become a torture for both student and instructor.
Giving wide circuits etc is just compensating to the fact the student is struggling with S&L etc. The circuit is not the place to be teaching and working on S&L and trimming.