Martine Pillette is a prominent languages consultant, who provided a training day in Birmingham recently.
Exploring how you meet the needs of all learners in mixed-experience year 7 classes.

The day provided a variety of practical ideas and activities which focus on building upon the skills that these children bring with them. 
Investigating skills and language, collaborative learning and higher level thinking. Here is an extract of the power point from the day.
Those who attended found the course provided,

'concrete examples of how to work with mixed ability classes in MFL.'

an inspiring approach to the delivery of MFL in KS3. Skill-based teaching is much more powerful.'