[bread_baker]

Hi alawton,
Well, I taught some adult classes with 5 levels. I settled into a pattern of teaching the class as a 3-level class (low group, middle group and high group). Of course that made lesson planning complex, but that's what I did. Most students enjoyed the class.
I'd suggest that you plan to teach your class as 2 or 3 levels (depending on how big the differential is betweeen the skills of the lowest and the skills of the highest). Plan activities that last at least 30 minutes each. That way you don't go crazy trying to manage the class. If the lowest students can barely speak at all, or are not literate in their native languages, ask the school to give you an assistant. At my school, teachers of the 2 bottom levels get (and need) assistants. Hands-on activities are excellent for beginners. Matching and scrambled sentence activities are excellent. To keep the high-end students busy while you work with the low-end students, what about small group discussions (for which you assign the questions or topics)?
Marie