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Copy the chart with your own definitions for the following terms (column 1) and explain their 
relevance to teaching (column 2).
Your definition
Relevance to language 
learning/teaching
Validity
Reliability
Face valid ity
Backwash effect
Interlocutor
Discrete test item
Integrative test item
Direct test item
Indirect test item
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Jeremy Harmer 
How to Teach English
© Pearson Education Limited 2007
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TASK FILE
A Students are all at different levels (pages 176-177)
1 Rewrite these sentences so that they reflect your own opinion.
a Mixed-ability classes present the teacher with insuperable problems, 
b The only thing you can do with a mixed-ability class is ignore the problem, 
c All classes are mixed-ability classes.
2 How would you approach these situations with a mixed-ability group?
a You want to use the interview with Diana Hayden on page 141 with your students, 
b You want students to write a ghost story, having studied story telling, and having been given 
some ‘ghost’ vocabulary and phrases, 
c You want students to study ways of agreeing and disagreeing - and later use them, if 
possible, in some kind of discussion, 
d You have a poem which you want students to look at. You can refer to ‘Fire and Ice’ on page 
108 if you want.
e Three of your good students are making it clear that they’re finding your classes too easy for 
them.
f You want to hand back some written work and deal with the mistakes that you found when 
correcting.