Series Overview

POTENTIAL A2

Reach higher

Potential A2 helps students consolidate and expand their English skills as they progress through CEFR A2 level. By combining engaging topics, motivating texts and practical communicative tasks, the course helps learners strengthen grammar, vocabulary, listening, speaking, reading and writing skills while continuing to develop independence, confidence and essential life skills.

  • Quick talk videos feature social-media-style challenges that actively help students consolidate English grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
  • Documentary-style videos provide authentic content that shows real-life situations, exposes students to a variety of accents, and develops listening and cultural understanding.
  • Preview sections spark interest in upcoming lessons or topics and prepare students for new English language points with short tasks or guided questions.
  • Build your potential sections focus on key English subskills and practical learning strategies.
  • Life skills & values lessons develop social and emotional learning (SEL) and foster cultural awareness, teamwork and responsible decision-making.
  • Projects encourage learner independence, creative expression, collaboration and awareness of sustainability and the environment.
  • Vocabulary builder and Graded story in the Workbook help students expand their English vocabulary and improve reading comprehension.

Components

Student’s Book

  • Ten structured units including Vocabulary, Reading, Grammar, Listening, Speaking and Writing lessons.
  • Review and Video lessons follow every second unit to consolidate learning.
  • Life skills & values lessons and Projects support skills development.
  • Includes a Grammar reference, Irregular verbs list and Communicative activities.

Workbook

  • Unit activities provide five pages of exercises for each of the ten units, covering Vocabulary, Grammar, Reading, Speaking and Writing.
  • Five Progress tests, one after every second unit, consolidate learning.
  • Vocabulary builder supports lexical development.
  • Vocabulary list and an extract from a Helbling Reader with related activities.

On HELBLING e-zone

  • Student’s e-book+
  • Workbook e-book+
  • Cyber Homework
  • Exam Practice

HELBLING Media App

  • Audio
  • Video

Teacher’s Book

  • Teaching notes provide clear and concise guidance for each unit.
  • Unit objectives list the goals for each unit and include notes for each Unit Opener page.
  • Exercise notes explain each activity and include answer keys at the end of each exercise.
  • Audio and Video transcripts give full transcripts for all exercises, with video transcripts included in the Video lesson notes section.
  • Lesson introduction ideas offer suggestions on how to introduce each lesson effectively.
  • Language notes explain vocabulary and provide extra information to support teaching.
  • Grammar guidance highlights common student errors and includes concept-check questions.
  • Extension questions provide prompts to extend and expand student learning.
  • Alternative activities suggest different ways to approach each lesson.
  • Pronunciation tips offers tips for teaching pronunciation effectively.
  • Fast finisher suggestions provide ideas for students who complete tasks quickly.
  • Extra practice activities include additional exercises for practising and using the target language.
  • Culture and Background notes give context and insights related to the topics and texts.

On HELBLING e-zone

  • Presentation Software (IWB)
    • e-book+ for class presentation
    • All Audio and Video
    • Teacher's Resources
  • Testbuilder + Test Audio
  • Placement Test
  • HELBLING Media App
    • Audio
    • Video

Sample Materials

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Student's Book Contents
Student's Book
Workbook
Teacher's Book

The Authors

Lindsay Clandfield

Lindsay Clandfield

Lindsay Clandfield is a teacher, teacher trainer, and multiple award-winning author. He is one of the main authors of Helbling’s new adult course STUDIO. Lindsay is a frequent plenary speaker at international conferences and has been involved in many creative online projects from blogging to podcasting. He’s interested in appropriate classroom use of technology and multimedia.

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Katherine Stannett

Katherine Stannett

Katherine Stannett is a teacher trainer and author based in the UK. She has taught English to a wide variety of students in many different settings and is the author of several successful upper primary and secondary series as well as raps, songs and magazine articles. She gives plenaries and workshops around the world and also conducts webinars from her home office in the UK.

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Patricia Chappell

Patricia Chappell

Patricia Chappell is based in the UK and is an author with over thirty years of experience in editing, writing and developing ELT materials. She is a linguist with a Modern Languages degree from Durham University, and has taught English, French and Spanish in the UK, Spain and Argentina.

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Amanda Maris

Amanda Maris

Amanda draws on a breadth of experience as a modern linguist, teacher, teacher trainer, and Cambridge English examiner to create innovative materials across a range of levels. In her work as a content creator, Amanda has enjoyed successful collaborations on some of the most wide-reaching materials, both print and digital.

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