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INTRODUCTIONTO PROJECTWORK 
Tom Hutchinson
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Project work is not a new methodology. Its benefitshave been widely recognized for many years in theteaching of subjects like Science, Geography, andHistory. Some teachers have also been doing projectwork in their language lessons for a long time, but forothers it is a new way of working.The aim of this booklet is to provide a simpleintroduction to project work. I shall explain what projectwork is, what benefits it brings, and how to introduce itinto the classroom. I shall also deal with the mainworries that teachers have about using project work intheir classrooms.The ideas in this booklet are based on the realclassroom experience of a large number of teachers andstudents of English. I hope that after reading it, you toowill be encouraged to try project work.
What is a project?
The best way to answer this question is to show someexamples of projects. The following pieces of projectwork were done by students aged 11–15 in Slovakia andHungary.
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Here is an example of a very straightforward andpopular project:
 My Favourite Animal
. The studentschoose an animal and write about it. They illustratethe project with pictures (photographs, postcards,etc.).
Project 1
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Projects allow students to use their imagination andthe information they contain does not always have tobe factual. In this example of a project whichrequired students to introduce themselves and theirfavourite things, the students pretend they are ahorse.
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Project 2
by Katorina Pokorná and Klára Kucejová
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