Business Top Trumps

Check out this original set of Business Top Trumps cards and twelve complete lesson plans and inject some fun into your Business English classes.

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Business Top Trumps: An Introduction

Check out this original set of Business Top Trumps cards and twelve complete lesson plans and inject some fun into your Business English classes.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 10—Setting personal goals

In this lesson, students can discuss setting and achieving work goals and what changes they can make to improve their performance.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 11—Presentations

In this lesson, students learn different ways of starting and giving a presentation.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 12—Making proposals

In this lesson, students learn about the language of corporate responsibility through future forms, conditionals, and modals.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 1—Playing the game

In the first lesson of this engaging series, students get to know the Top Trumps cards and learn how to play the game.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 2—Company structure

In this lesson, students will complete an organigram of a fictional company and talk about their own company’s structure.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 3—Company profile

In this lesson, students discuss what kind of company the characters work for, answer questions about the company, and write a company profile.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 4—Situations vacant

In this lesson, students discuss what skills are needed to do a particular job, write CVs and formulate interview questions.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 5—Restructuring

In this lesson, students discuss the financial crisis and use idioms and phrases to discuss a difficult business.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 6—Moving premises

In this lesson, students discuss moving premises and make decisions about work-from-home policies and outsourcing.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 7—Networking and small talk

In this lesson, students talk about how to initiate and continue small talk and learn the language to introduce a third person into a conversation.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 8—Negotiations

In this lesson, students can talk about various negotiation topics and experiences.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 9—Dilemmas

In this lesson, students learn about dealing with dilemmas at work and how to be objective.