Rubens Heredia

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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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5 Tips to teach vocabulary more effectively

2022-05-09

We all know how important it is to improve our vocabulary when studying English as a foreign language. But how can we teach new words to our students more effectively? In the third video of this series, Rubens Heredia shares five tips to make sure that students learn and remember new vocabulary.

5 tips to teach listening and reading skills

2022-03-08

Every course book includes reading and listening activities, but are you making the most out of them? Do you feel confident enough to design your own tasks? In this vlog, Rubens Heredia shares 5 tips to make sure that you are not just testing, but actually teaching reading and listening.

5 fun ways to start English Lessons

2022-01-17

How do you usually start your lessons? Would you say you hook your students in? Watch to learn five ways to be truly engaging in those early and important minutes of your lessons, allow positive student interaction and perhaps become more effective in your teaching.

5 tips based on my experience as a student

2022-01-13

It is often suggested that studying another language can help teachers gain insight into their learners’ needs. In this video, Rubens Heredia shares five tips to design and deliver effective English lessons based on the insights he’s gained studying Catalan for the last two years.

5 tips to teach using flipped lessons

2021-10-13

Do you want to optimise the time in the classroom and make homework more motivating to students? Have you ever tried giving homework ahead of class? This vlog post takes you through five tips to flip your English lessons to help you get the most out of your classes.

5 ways to use social media to teach English

2021-08-19

What kind of feedback do you give your learners? Does it improve their grades or overall ability? Watch this vlog to get tips on correcting mistakes more effectively and how that can help learners understand their performance and then really improve.

5 tips to give feedback to students

2021-06-29

5 tips to reduce lesson preparation time

2021-04-28

Do you ever feel like you end up spending more time planning lessons than you would like to? In his latest video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia shares five tips to help you plan lessons more quickly and effectively.

5 ways to make lessons more student centred

2020-11-17

Whether we are teaching online or having face-to-face lessons, it is important that we think about how to make English classes fun and relevant to students. In this video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia shares 5 tips to make lessons more student centred and engaging.

5 ways to make lessons interactive and fun with social distancing

2020-09-17

As schools re-open, teachers are having to quickly adapt to ‘the new normal’. With classic tools of communicative lessons, like handouts and board games needing to be adapted or avoided, class dynamics become more challenging. This post discusses ways to keep lessons interactive while maintaining a safe distance.

7 Things You Need to Know Before You Start Teaching Abroad

2018-03-09

Being an English teacher allows you to work in many different places around the world. But what are the things you need to know before you decide to pack your bags and move to a different country? And what are the most important things to bear in mind when working abroad? In his first video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia tells you the 7 most important lessons he’s learnt from his experience living and working with ELT in different countries.

5 ways to make online lessons fun and effective

2014-09-02

Now that we’ve managed to start teaching online without training all of a sudden, it’s time for us to think about how to select games, texts and videos to make lessons more interactive. In his fourth video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia shares 5 ways to improve the quality of online English lessons of students, using communicative methodology, free online tools and authentic materials.

5 tips to use videos in your English lessons

2014-03-19

Videos are everywhere and have been a staple of English Language classrooms for a while. But do we get the most out of them in our lessons? In his latest video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia shares five tips to make more effective use of video in lessons.

8 Tips on How to Teach English Online

2014-01-23

In his third video for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia shares his tips to help you feel better prepared for online teaching and more confident to choose apps for online English lessons.

5 things to try in English lessons and career in 2021

2013-06-14

2020 posed many challenges for us teachers, but also helped us see that the ways we could keep teaching. Now it’s time to look forward and set goals for the year ahead. So, our first vlog of 2021 describes 5 ways you could try to improve your lessons and keep on developing your career.