5 ways to engage teenagers in your English lessons

By Rubens Heredia

2024-03-08

Less than 1 min.

Discover the most effective 5 ways to engage teenagers in lessons. Boost their participation with proven strategies from Rubens Heredia’s insightful tips.

Teenagers can sometimes be a tough crowd and not respond as well as we want to the activities we propose. However, when they really engage with lessons they are all in. So how can we actually engage teens? In this vlog, Rubens Heredia shares five suggestions on how to grab and maintain teens’ attention in English lessons.

Have these tips worked for you? Is there anything you would add to the list? Share your ideas in the comments or on our social media, and let us know how you get on with Rubens’ tips!

Useful References

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Brown, H. D. (2000) Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy 2nd ed. Longman.

Hasper, A. (2023), Creating a culture of welcoming mistakes. Modern English Teacher blog.

Nanna, L. (2014) Flip, follow and feedback. English Teaching Professional, 95.

Ocriciano, M. (2021) Changes and the postmethod. Modern English Teacher blog.

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Rubens Heredia has been a vlogger for Pavilion ELT since December 2019. His vlog posts draw upon his experiences as a teacher and teacher trainer, as well as the ones as a student of Catalan and they provide a huge variety of teaching tips and techniques to use in the classroom, in flipped learning and in live online classes. Rubens is currently working as a freelance CELTA trainer, based in Barcelona, and he is the co-founder of whatiselt.com, a website and social media platform dedicated to helping English teachers and teacher trainers with definitions of common ELT concepts as well as examples and tips on how to use them more effectively in lessons. He began his teaching career in Brazil, where he taught one-to-one lessons and groups of children, teens and adults. Rubens has been involved in teacher training and course design for the last eight years. He's also a frequent speaker at international conferences and you can catch more from him on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter: @whatiselt.

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