Project lessons
Tackle food loss and waste in the language classroom
Food loss and waste is increasingly evident in our homes, schools and workplaces, but also in cafes, restaurants and supermarkets. And it has a huge impact on the environment.
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It’s our world: a month for the environment
Taking action to protect our environment has become an essential part of most teachers’ and students’ agenda.
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Tea in fiction and language
When you start learning English, the familiar cup of tea, present in every corner of the world, gains new meanings. Tea becomes more than something you drink in the morning or when you feel poorly.
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Reading the museum
Museums are places of adventure, engagement and discovery. They take us into a world of investigation and imagination.
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Get creative: offline and online projects for language learners
Creative projects, when designed well, can be exciting and motivating for language learners.
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Collaborative projects online
Some important aspects of language development have emerged in the current situation of distance/online learning.
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Beyond the Moon: Two readers to travel in space
In the last on our series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, we present some Helbling readers which will launch you and your students into space.
We have already looked at M
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Beyond the Moon: Space projects for the language class
In this post on space travel we boldly go where no language class has gone before: to the outer regions of our solar system!
We recommend the following projects as starting points for both indi
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Moon Landing 50: Moony goes on holiday
2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing. In a previous post we have collected resources for you to learn more about the Moon landing and lots of stories to inspire CLIL and
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Reading for fun at home: tips and resources
How can we encourage reading for fun at home? Reading the texts in course books from lesson to lesson contributes to our students’ focused language development, but there is so much more to reading.
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Explore the forest of Robin Hood
Say the name Robin Hood, and a series of ideas, images and connotations immediately come to mind.
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Digital tools for video projects
Video projects are not only great fun, but they are also excellent for language development.
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