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Options

Options for life, options for learning

Options is a new, exciting four-level course for secondary students by world-renowned author Herbert Puchta & team, providing successful solutions for mixed-ability classes

  • Differentiated skills development and tasks ensuring that the level of challenge is always appropriate.
  • Step by step approach to grammar and vocabulary taking students safely from language presentation to practice and production.
  • Cognitive and emotional engagement thanks to a great variety of appealing content and tasks that make learning enjoyable and memorable.
  • A competency-based approach which also supports the development of Learning for life skills, clearly mapped and labelled throughout the course.
  • CLIL and Sustainable Development Goals presentations address the global challenges we face through attractive and thought-provoking double pages.
  • A complete digital package for individualised, adaptive online learning.
  • Extensive practice for international exams.

Key Features

Options offers methodology you can trust, plus exciting innovations that personalise learning – so that every student achieves their potential! The series offers an extensive range of print and digital materials.

Browse the brochure for a full overview of all the features.

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Options | Brochure

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Options | Key Features | Differentiation

Basic (simplified) and Enriched (more challenging) versions of the main reading texts in the Student’s Book support learning in the mixed ability classroom.
Choose A or B tasks occur several times in each unit, enabling the differentiation of sub-competences in the areas of speaking and writing.
A digital audio player allows students to listen at different speeds, so that the students feel comfortable and can increase the speed gradually.

Options | e-zone | Personal Learning Track

At the end of every unit, each student can take an online progress test, followed by personalised practice based on their test result – so that every student spends time on what they need most. Then they can take another test and see their improved results – this boosts motivation and sustains it throughout the course.

Options | Key Features | Fully individualised Online Learning

Vocabulary Trainer reinforces key lexis, so students learn core vocabulary from each unit, while Dialogue Karaoke helps students to learn and practise vocabulary and chunks of language, including pronunciation, at their own pace.

Options | Key Features | Easy to use methodology

Regular unit structure makes Options easy to use both for teachers and students.

Carefully staged classroom lessons take students from reception to production of the core language syllabus, plus ‘You know’ and ‘You can’ goals at the start of every unit make learning objectives clear and make it possible to do a quick check of the learning progress at the end of a unit.

Options | Key Features | Video

Options offers a wide range of video content as a highly meaningful and entertaining learning tool: 

  • The Secret Spring animated stories engage learners and help them to retain key vocabulary / language (in levels 1-2).
  • Documentary-style Watching the World videos introduce the opening spread topic (in levels 3-4).
  • Real-life stories present language in the context of the target language culture.
  • Learning for life vlogs show young people sharing their experiences of the world around them.
  • Sustainable Development Goals videos invite students to reflect on social, economic, and environmental challenges.
  • Grammar raps help learners to retain important grammar structures in their long-term memory, while having fun.
Options | Key Features | Learning for life

Options supports the development of Learning for life skills, which are clearly mapped and labelled throughout the course:

  • The 4 C’s: Collaboration, Critical thinking, Communication, Creativity
  • Social and emotional learning
  • Global learning
  • Digital skills
  • Research skills

Components & ISBNs

For Students

  • Student’s Book
  • Workbook

On HELBLING e-zone

  • Student’s e-book+ 
  • Workbook e-book+
  • Personal Learning Track
  • Audio & Video
  • Dialogue Karaoke
  • Cyber Homework
  • Exam Practice
  • Vocabulary Trainer

HELBLING Media App

  • Audio
  • Video
  • Basic/Enriched reading texts

For Teachers

  • Teacher’s Book

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
  • Basic/Enriched reading texts
  • e-book+ for class presentation offline for Windows/macOS
Standard

Student’s Book and Workbook as separate volumes provide material for the classroom and further practice at home.

Combo Split

Each volume provides four Student’s Book units and four Workbook units. All Options teachers’ materials are also available in flexible formats to match the versions.

Download and print out the full list of ISBNs.

Options | ISBN list

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HELBLING e-zone

Technology made easy

Whether you teach online or face-to-face, or a blend of both, Options offers a wealth of digital materials and resources allowing innovative approaches for differentiated learning - available on HELBLING e-zone, a user-friendly online platform for learners and teachers.

Options | e-zone | Technology made easy

e-book+

The interactive Student’s Book and Workbook, with embedded audio and video. These digital books include interactive self-correcting tasks plus Basic and Enriched reading texts, which are also accessible on mobile devices.

Options | e-zone | Dialogue Karaoke

Dialogue Karaoke

Helping students to learn and practise vocabulary and chunks of language, including pronunciation, at their own pace.

Options | e-zone | Personal Learning Track

Personal Learning Track

Online, auto-marked tests with immediate score. Students are given practice based on their test results, so that each student focuses on what they really need.

The Practice Tests + individualised practice for every unit cover language and receptive skills – Grammar, Vocabulary, Functions, Listening, Reading.

Teachers can easily monitor engagement and progress data for the whole class or individual students, without any marking required.

 

Options | e-zone | Cyber Homework

LMS on HELBLING e-zone

Cyber Homework: extra activities assigned by the teacher, with automatic feedback, at regular points through the unit that let students practise the new vocabulary and grammar.

Exam Practice: exam-based activities every two units.

Options | e-zone | Vocabulary Trainer

Vocabulary Trainer

To reinforce key lexis, so students learn core vocabulary from each unit.

Options | e-zone | IWB

Presentation Software (IWB)

The teacher’s version of the student’s material for presentation on an interactive whiteboard (IWB) for face-to-face classes or for screen-sharing in virtual classrooms. Particular features include:

  • e-book+ for class presentation
  • All audio and video
  • Teacher’s resources

Teachers can also access the e-book+ for class presentation in the HELBLING Media App for Windows and macOS.

 

Options | e-zone | Testbuilder with Test Audio

Testbuilder with Test Audio

Specially developed tests allow you to effectively evaluate your students’ progress. You can use ready-to-print tests or edit and generate your own versions for face-to-face teaching.

 

Options | e-zone | Placement Test

Placement Test

Designed to give students and teachers a quick way of assessing the approximate level of a student’s knowledge of English grammar and usage.

 

HELBLING Media App

Options | Media App | Desktop app

Quick access to multimedia material at any time, anywhere - with or without internet connection.

All audio and video content, as well as the Basic and Enriched texts, are available via the HELBLING Media App for both pupils and teachers, on mobile devices and desktop computers.

Options | Media App | App

Teachers can also access the e-book+ for class presentation in the HELBLING Media App for Windows and macOS.

The HELBLING Media App is available for free for Android, iOS, Windows and macOS.

Download from the app store of your choice or via helbling.com/media-app

 

Get the Options level 3 Media App (for students) - DEMO!

Download the free Helbling Media App.
Open the app and add the media content by scanning the QR code or entering this access code:
DEMO-37EW-3MRY-RME6

Options | Media App | QR COde

Options and HELBLING Readers

Download and print out the Options & HELBLING graded Readers mapping.

Videos

Options offers a wide range of video content as a highly meaningful and entertaining learning tool. CLIL & Sustainable Development Goals, real world, documentary-style, animations, vlogs and grammar raps.

The Secret Spring animated stories engage learners and help them to retain key vocabulary / language.
levels 1-2

Documentary-style Watching the World videos introduce the opening spread topic.
levels 3-4

Real-life stories present language in the context of the target language culture.
‘The After-School Club’: levels 1-2
‘The Café’: levels 3-4

Learning for life vlogs show Jamie and Luna share insights into their own lives.
levels 1-4

CLIL/Sustainable Development Goals morning newscast-style videos invite students to reflect on social, economic, and environmental challenges. 
levels 1-4

Grammar raps help learners to retain important grammar structures in their long-term memory, while having fun.
levels 1-4

The Authors

Herbert Puchta

Herbert Puchta

Herbert Puchta is an award-winning author and teacher trainer. He has been a plenary speaker at numerous international conferences, and has conducted workshops and given seminars in more than 50 countries. For almost three decades, he has carried out research into the practical application of findings from cognitive psychology to English Language Teaching.

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Chris Jory

Chris Jory

Chris Jory has worked in the field of English language teaching for over 30 years. As a teacher and teacher trainer he has taught in schools in Italy, Spain, Brazil, Venezuela, Greece and the UK. He has also worked on the creation of teaching and learning materials for more than 20 years, including as an editor, publisher, and writer.

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Peter Lewis-Jones

Peter Lewis-Jones

Peter Lewis-Jones is a freelance author who has been involved in EFL since 1993. After stints abroad teaching in Italy, Egypt, Indonesia and Brazil, he returned to the UK in 2006 to concentrate on writing. He now lives on the North Wales border where he spends his time meeting deadlines and birdwatching in his free time.

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Christian Holzmann

Christian Holzmann

Christian Holzmann teaches English and German at the Rainergymnasium and the Sir Karl Popper Schule in Vienna, methodology at the Department of English at Vienna University, and also works as a teacher trainer. He is the co-author of a series of successful coursebooks for ELT and regularly publishes articles on methodology, literature and media.

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