Mixed ability classes

The main strategy which I use while teaching classes with learners having different capabilities, different speeds of learning and different levels of language competency is asserting three-level demands for the learners. As I am the co-author of the subject syllabuses and standards of teaching English at public schools of Armenia according to the CEFR, it was not difficult for me to compile three-level qualitative demands for the learners of our Educational Complex. These three-level qualitative demands help our EFL teachers in their everyday work.
For example, here are some samples of standards of narrative speech at elementary schools 
Low level -to speak about a picture describing the actions, using the most common verbs 

Middle level-to describe daily actions that does the person himself or the others (in the moment of speaking, usually or in the past) using words denoting actions (adverbs of time, place, manner and so on).

High level -to describe some picture, phenomenon, event, what has been heard of or seen, to express one's attitude and to motivate it (for example- I like it because…)
For example, we have a picture of a seaside beach. 

The low level learners are expected to say such sentences as: A boy is swimming. A girl is playing. Five boys are playing volleyball....
The middle level learner is expected to say such sentences as: A young man is swimming very far. A little girl is playing on the sands with her ball. Five boys are merrily playing volleyball....

The high level learner: A boy is swimming fery far but he doesn't know that it is dangerous. A pretty looking little girl is playing on the sands with her ball. Her mother is looking at her happily.

Three-level qualitative demands of language competency have been compiled for elementary, middle and high schools on listening and reading comprehension, speaking and writing.

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