POTENTIAL

Reach higher

POTENTIAL is the new upper-secondary course designed to help students achieve their full potential. It gives students a wide range of tools to learn English and develop life skills, by encouraging creativity and critical thought, with a focus on motivating texts and topics. 

  • Quick talk videos – engaging, social-mediastyle videos featuring short challenges to consolidate grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
  • Documentary-style videos exposing students to a mix of accents and cultures.
  • Preview sections designed to spark interest
  • Build your potential sections focusing on key subskills and learning strategies.
  • Life skills and values lessons aimed at developing students’ social and emotional learning (SEL) and fostering an understanding of cultural and social diversity.
  • Projects promoting learner independence and teamwork, creativity and an awareness of sustainability and the environment.
  • Vocabulary builders and graded Stories in the Workbook helping students expand their lexical understanding.

    Key Features

    Potential – Engaging Topics

    Each unit of Potential opens with large images and thought-provoking questions to spark interest in a topic and get students talking. The topics are chosen to provide a motivating source of information, with texts serving as a springboard for discussion or encouraging a personal response. Dedicated Speaking lessons focus on a specific skill or function, and spoken responses are encouraged throughout each unit.

    Potential – Vocabulary Focus

    There are always two vocabulary sections within a lesson. The first is often a lexical set of words and phrases around the unit topic. The second often focuses on other aspects of vocabulary systems, such as word-building, collocation and idiomatic language.

    Potential – Clear Preparation

    As well as reviewing learnt material, Potential regularly focuses on upcoming activities. Preview sections in Reading, Grammar and Listening lessons generate interest in the next class or can be used online as preparatory work before a lesson. Within Grammar lessons, short Figure it out sections encourage students to work out grammar rules, preparing them for the lesson ahead.

    Potential – Skills practice

    The Reading, Listening and Writing lessons have an explicit focus on subskills and learning strategies, with Build your potential sections designed to help students improve in these areas. These sections also appear in the Video lessons, helping students with areas of spoken English.

    Potential – SEL

    Life skills and values lessons are designed to develop students’ soft skills – their ability to be resilient, resourceful and empathetic learners. These lessons focus on personal development, but also encourage students to look beyond their own experiences and expand their awareness of cultures, beliefs and identities around the world.

    Potential – Projects

    Regular Projects are designed to foster learner independence and group work, to allow for creative expression using a variety of media and to encourage awareness of the important world issues of sustainability and the environment.

    Potential – How-to Pages

    Illustrated and engaging How-to pages providing tips for developing students’ skills and confidence in Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking and Pronunciation (A1 level). Skills diaries in the Workbook complement these pages.

    Videos

    Documentary Videos

    Longer Video lessons are based on documentaries covering a wide range of real-life situations. Documentary videos at each level provide a change of focus and give more listening and language practice.

    Quick talk videos

    Short Quick talk videos in each unit follow a familiar social media format and contain short challenges to consolidate learning of grammar and vocabulary. These take the focus away from the teacher and provide accuracy and pronunciation practice.