Business Top Trumps
An original set of Business Top Trumps cards for Business English students, to inject some fun into your Business English classes.
Pre-experience and in-work business students from elementary to advanced will love playing this game. But, just in case they are having too much fun, we are also bringing you a set of twelve complete lesson plans which you can use in conjunction with the cut-out-and-keep cards. Covering business topics from company structure to outsourcing, why not start with the card game and then move on to develop the language more fully?
Now you can access the complete series below. The first lesson is all about understanding and playing the card game. Try a FREE sample of the cards by clicking the link below.
Take a look at our ’How to play Top Trumps’ video to find out more …
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PDFIntroduction to Business Top Trumps
Author: Karen Richardson Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, Worksheet
Yes, you can play card games in your business-English classroom! We all know that if students enjoy their English lessons and have fun while learning, they are more likely to retain what they have been taught. But you, or they, may sometimes have the niggling feeling that playing games is ’not serious enough’ for business-English students. This thought might well stem from the fact that there are very few game resources for the business-English classroom that have been created ...
Business Top Trumps cards
Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, Worksheet
The full set of 30 Business Top Trumps cards in our exclusive cut-out-and-keep format. This pack has been developed especially for students of business English by our very own Karen Richardson. Suitable for elementary- to advanced-level students, this game is guaranteed to inject some fun into your business-English classroom.
Lesson 1: Playing the game
In the first lesson, students get to know the Top Trumps cards, find out about the categories and learn how to play the game.
Lesson 2: Company structure
Author: Karen Richardson Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, Worksheet
In the second lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students will complete an organogram of the fictional company, talk about their own company’s structure and invent their own cards.
Lesson 3: Company profile
Author: Karen Richardson Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, Worksheet
In the third lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss what kind of company the characters work for, answer questions about the company and write a company profile.
Lesson 4: Situations vacant
Author: Karen Richardson Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, Worksheet
In the fourth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss what skills, qualifications and experience are needed to do a particular job well, write CVs and formulate interview questions.
Lesson 5: Restructuring
Author: Karen Richardson Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, Worksheet
In the fifth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss the financial crisis, practise writing emails, use idioms and phrases to discuss a difficult business situation and role-play a company meeting.
Lesson 6: Moving premises
Author: Karen Richardson Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, Worksheet
In the sixth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss moving premises and decide which employees could work from home, make a decision on which department could be outsourced and practise writing an email to submit a tender.
Lesson 7: Networking and small talk
Author: Karen Richardson Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, Worksheet
In the seventh lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students talk about how to initiate and continue small talk with opening and follow-up questions, discuss a variety of small-talk topics and learn language to introduce a third person into a conversation.
Lesson 8: Negotiations
Author: Karen Richardson Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, Worksheet
In the eighth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students can talk about a variety of negotiation topics, discuss their own negotiation experiences and act out a role-play in front of the class.
Lesson 9: Dilemmas
Author: Karen Richardson Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, Worksheet
In this lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students learn about dealing with dilemmas at work and how to be objective.
Lesson 10: Setting personal goals
Author: Karen Richardson Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, Worksheet
In the tenth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students can talk about setting and achieving work-based goals, how happy they are in their work, and what changes could be made to improve their performance.
Lesson 11: Presentations
Author: Karen Richardson Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, Worksheet
In the eleventh lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students learn different ways of starting a presentation, to describe charts and graphs, and how to invite and deal with questions.
Lesson 12: Making proposals
Author: Karen Richardson Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, Worksheet
In the twelfth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students learn about the language of corporate responsibility through future forms, conditionals and modals.
