While the general unit for a teaching plan is the single class period, we have found that multi-period lessons bring many benefits: increased student motivation, visible student progress, and simplified lesson planning for teachers. Because university classes usually meet only once a week, multi-period lessons recycle skills and information. In this paper, we will present group projects as an example of multi-period work. First, we will give background information on projects and their applicability to the EFL classroom. Second, we will outline a survey project that we have used successfully in our freshman English classes at a national university in Japan. We will also suggest other project ideas we have used in a range of classes.