This document discusses mixed-ability classrooms and strategies for teaching them. It defines a mixed-ability classroom as one with students having different language levels, learning styles, backgrounds, and motivations. Some strategies presented include catering to different learning styles through a variety of activities, using open-ended questions and assignments, and having fast finishers help other students. The document also notes some challenges teachers face with mixed-ability classes, such as keeping all students engaged and addressing different paces of learning.

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Presented by:
Mohamed Louza

2. The outline:
1. What is a mixed-ability class?
2. How can we deal with mixed ability
classes?
۩ Catering for different types of learners.
۩ Open-ended activities
۩ Dealing with different learning speeds
3. Some problems that mixed-ability classes
present for teachers

3. What is a mixed-ability class?
 Different individuals.
» language level
» learning style
» students’ background knowledge
» levels of motivation

4. How can we deal with mixed-ability
classes?
 Catering for different types of learners
Learning styles
and prefernces
Approach
- Learning activities

5. • what kinds of learners are there?
» Visual learners
» Auditory learners
» kinesthetic learners
» Individual learners
» Group learners
» Concrete learners
» Analytical learners
» Communicative learners
» Authority-oriented learners

6. • how can you cater for different
learning styles?
» Grammar persentation
» Vocabulary
» Skills work:
balance

7. Open-ended activities
 Ask/ answer questions
» You and your family
» School
» Holidays
 Responding to a picture.
 Using stories
 Music
 Student journals: journals or diaries in English

8. My Christmas holiday 12th January
At Christmas holiday i go to my grandmothers’ house.
When i came, i heelp my mother do the cakes to
Christmas.
I eat so many cakes, then i was full.
My presents were grait.
I go to the beach, i watch T.V. and go to cinema with my
friends.
The new year was grait!
I eat again cakes and again i was full.
You like cakes I think! Are there special cakes
you eat at Christmas in Portugal?
I’m glad you got some great presents.
What did you get?

9. Dealing with different learning speeds
►Fast finishers.
♫ Encourage fast finishers to check their work.
♫ Helping other students.
co-operation
‫ ٭‬Reading comprehension.
‫ ٭‬Grammar exercises
‫ ٭‬Writing
‫ ٭‬Homework

10. Some problems mixed-ability classes
present for the teacher
Half the students finished
other half have just begun.
The stronger students get
bored if I spend time explaining
to the weaker ones.
We’ve got a syllabus to get
through but most of the students
are already behind.

11. The stronger students dominate.
The weaker students sit at the back and start
disrupting the lesson.
The weaker students
don’t even try.
The weaker students are
always asking me things in
their own language and want
everything explained in it.

12. References:
 The Mixed Ability Class
Julie Tice 1977
Richmond Publishing
 The Practice Of English Language
Teaching
Jeremy Harmer
Fourth Edition 2009
Pearson Longman

13. A wise mind fr …………..;;
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