Top Trumps: Baby animals
Baby animals is a cute, fun Top Trumps game for primary and lower secondary children learning English. Download the full pack of cards in our special cut-out-and-keep format now and take a look at FOUR accompanying lesson plans.
Top Trumps lesson plans
Check out Carol Read’s four comprehensive lesson plans, with step-by-step teacher’s notes and student worksheets, to accompany the Baby animals Top Trumps pack. Each lesson plan has a different focus, designed to fully exploit the classroom potential of the cards:
1. Vocabulary and playing Top Trumps
2. Language, skills and Top Trumps facts
3. Content-based learning
4. Cross-curricular skills
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Top Trumps: Baby animals: Cards
The full set of 30 Baby animals Top Trumps cards in our exclusive cut-out-and-keep format, specially versioned for learners of English by Carol Read.
Level: Elementary, Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, General lesson plan
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Top Trumps: Baby animals: Lesson 1
In the first lesson plan, based on the Top Trumps Baby animals cards, Carol Read focuses on vocabulary and playing Top Trumps. Children will learn to recognize and identify animals and baby animals, understand the categories on the Top Trumps Baby animals cards, and play Top Trumps.
Level: Elementary, Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, General lesson plan
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Top Trumps: Baby animals: Lesson 2
In the second lesson plan based on the Top Trumps Baby animals cards, Carol Read focuses on language, skills development and Top Trumps facts. Children will learn to read and identify facts about baby animals, dictate and complete a description of an animal and write a description of an animal of their choice.
Level: Elementary, Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, General lesson plan
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Top Trumps: Baby animals: Lesson 3
In the third lesson plan based on the Top Trumps Baby animals cards, Carol Read focuses on content-based learning related to the Top Trumps cards. Children will learn to identify common characteristics of mammals, classify mammals according to what they eat and locate where mammals live on a world map.
Level: Elementary, Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, General lesson plan
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Top Trumps: Baby animals: Lesson 4
In the fourth and final lesson plan based on the Top Trumps Baby animals cards, Carol Read focuses on related skills and cross-curricular areas, e.g. art, craft, maths. Children will learn to say baby animals they like and give reasons, write about baby animals they like and give reasons, and make a baby pet animal mobile.
Level: Elementary, Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Game, General lesson plan
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Readers' comments (10)
web editor | Tue, 8 May 2018 10:02 am
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dboxall | Mon, 7 May 2018 9:00 am
Hello,
I'm afraid I can't get the link for the cards or the lesson plans to work! any suggestions?
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Web Editor | Tue, 22 Aug 2017 5:21 pm
Hi Sam,
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sam beeton | Tue, 22 Aug 2017 5:09 pm
hello, I can't get the baby animals learning product interactive white board link to work. Is it running? Thanks
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Web Editor | Mon, 14 Aug 2017 10:57 am
Hi Finland Bee,
Thank you for letting us know, we will investigate this.
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Finland Bee | Sun, 13 Aug 2017 2:54 pm
Hello, when I logged onto your website today, I received the message that you are not a "secure" site. Please take note.
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Web Editor | Fri, 4 Nov 2016 9:42 am
Morning Tinker,
Thanks for the feedback. There are indeed plans for some more Top Trumps packs in the pipeline for 2017 and these will be aimed at 7-11 year-olds and teens. Glad that you've found the Baby Animals set so useful with your after-school club - both educational and cute!
Best wishes,
The onestopenglish team
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Tinker | Fri, 4 Nov 2016 9:10 am
Morning!
Just wondering if there are going to be other packs of Top Trumps in addition to the Baby Animals one. They're a fantastic and versatile resource for an after school club where I have children aged 4 - 11 all in one group. Not easy!
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VivienG | Thu, 26 Jan 2012 5:34 pm
My 10 year old student LOVES her baby animals top trumps, in all forms of the game. I highly recommend this for capturing the attention of kids and teaching them some fun vocab.
(Unfortunately one of the words I have had to teach is "cheat!", but you can't win them all... well, not unless you bend the rules!)
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RobinJohns | Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:05 am
Great for motivation; fantastic content. Am I parochial in wishing that the map of my beloved New Zealand in Lesson 3 was more accurate? the 2011 Rugby World Cup final was not played in mid-ocean but in Auckland, our largest city.
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