For teachers
A class trip that fits in one lesson
Classroom mode puts a whole Virtual Flight on your projector, built for a room full of passengers. It’s free, there’s nothing to install, and nobody needs an account.
Running a Flight, start to finish
Before class
Check in
- Pick a country and the Kids or Grown-ups track.
- Paste your class list and print a boarding pass for everyone, several to a page.
- The list stays in memory only, so it never sits on a shared computer.
- Print the Flight’s lesson sheet from classroom mode: everything on the slides on one page, with the quiz answers.
In flight
Fly together
- One idea per screen in very large type, with photos. Arrow keys, the space bar or big buttons move on, and F goes full screen.
- Words appear one at a time, each with a Listen button.
- The workshop timer runs 3, 5 or 10 minutes, with a prompt for each small group.
Landing
Quiz and fly again
- The class answers the landing quiz out loud, and you reveal each answer.
- Classroom mode doesn’t stamp passports. Students can fly again at home and earn their own.
Questions teachers ask
Does it cost anything?
No. Virtual Flights is free, from LunchTrip Foundation.
Which countries can we visit?
Twelve so far: Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Nepal, Mongolia, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Kenya, Ukraine and Peru. Each has a Kids and a Grown-ups track, in English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Arabic, French and Korean.
A family in my class is from one of these countries. Can they help?
Yes, please pass this on. Anyone who has lived in one of these countries can become a guide and review its Flight, and native speakers can record its words.
Who says the words?
Native speakers, wherever we have a recording. Where we don’t yet, a computer voice stands in, and the app says so until a guide records the word.
Can students fly on their own?
Yes, on any device with a browser. Read it to me reads each stage aloud for children still learning to read, Say it lets them record themselves and hear it next to the real word (the recording never leaves the device), and they can tap any local word or name to hear how it’s said. They can print a postcard home when they land.
Has the content been checked?
Each country is being reviewed by a guide who has lived there, and the app marks Flights that are still waiting. Spotted something? Write to info@lunchtrip.org.