In a message dated 1/17/2006 8:07:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  kild
alljt at hotmail.com writes:
"I teach an adult immigrant ESL class, level  high beginner to low advanced, 
and am looking for general strategies to  teach multilevel classes. I have 
used multilevel cloze activities and  pairing lower and higher students 
together, but what other suggestions do  you have?
Thanks for any ideas,"
 
One activity you might try is the daily dictation of two sentences that  
incorporate what linguists often call sandhi or synoloepha.  I just call it  the 
"scrunching up" of words and phrases in speech as in "whutcha wanna do?"  (What 
do you want to do?) Whattaya gonna do tuhmarra? (What are you going to do  
tomorrow?).  This is what I call "Speech to Spelling."  To find out  more about 
this concept which I developed when teaching English to English  teachers in 
Japan, you might want to spend some time on the  ***www.spelling.org*** website.
 
Don McCabe