After almost six years of working with mixed ability classes in a private catholic school, where solidarity is promoted, I'd like to say that I have smelt a bit of success dealing with my advanced

I have just listened to an interesting podcast (you don't have to download, sign up to anything etc, you can just listen without any commitment or passwords!) from Steve Kaufmann who is the king of LingQ.com (an excellent language learning site btw).

When we encounter new vocabulary in class, I get the students to make sentences about themselves that contain the new words.

There are too many Language Certificates students can sit for these days.

The best way of teaching English as a second language is  by applying the basis of educative inclusion, I mean,  teachers have to consider not only students differences in the classroom b

Pair work is the way to go for a successful class. Most activities in the class aim at one thing - reduce the amount of TTT (Teacher Talking Time).