Addressing the Mixed-Level Class
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TESOL Connections: August 2019
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Alphabetical Order: Using the first or last letter in students’ given names or
surnames, ask learners to group.
To add an element of surprise, you can rotate the
category so that instead of names only you can ask students to group themselves
based on the first letter of their neighborhood, birth month, country of origin (in
the case of multilingual classes), or any other category you can think of.
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Matching Pairs: Prepare slips of paper with well-known
pairs of celebrities,
movies/books and authors, foods (e.g., peanut butter and jelly, spaghetti and
meatballs), and phrases (e.g., “It’s now or never,” “Don’t worry,
be happy,” “safe
and sound”). Once you have distributed them, tell your students to find their
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