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Introduction Mixed ability teaching become very popular in recent years. It provides even learning opportunities for difficult pupils and the learning is enhanced. In the following, a three coherently sequenced lesson plan would be show as an example of mixed ability teaching. The three lessons would be conducted in a primary two class. In the class, there are two students with Asperger syndrome, five with specific learning difficulties in reading and writing and thirteen without any specific learning difficulties. (Total twenty students in the class) For the two students with Asperger syndrome, they can do homework by themselves at home and they think the homework is too easy. For the five students with specific learning difficulties in reading and writing, all of their family cannot help with their homework because their most of their parents do not know any or little English. All the student in their class know each other’s English name, they have learnt the English of numbers, some transports’ name, the name of different places (e.g. park, school) and some words of different activities (e.g. reading, cycling).

Objectives
The topic of the lessons is Wh- words – Where, How , What, How old, How many and How much. The objectives of the three lessons are listed below:
Lesson 1: To teach pupils the meaning and to pronounce different Wh- words (Where, How, What, How old, How many and How much)
Lesson 2: To enable pupils to spell and apply the taught Wh-words
Lesson 3: To strengthen pupils to use the taught Wh-words Each lesson has 35minutes.

Lesson1 The objective of lesson 1 is to teach pupils the meaning and to pronounce different Wh-words. This lesson, students are sat in ‘Facing front’ classroom setting. (5 pupils in a row) In the beginning of the lesson, teacher read the Wh-words in the textbook and asks pupils to repeat the Wh-words after teacher. Then teacher will explain the meaning of the words. After introducing the Wh-words, the teacher