Business Top Trumps

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Introduction to Business Top Trumps

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. 

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Business Top Trumps: 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.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 2: Company structure

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.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 3: Company profile

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.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 5: Restructuring

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.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 4: Situations vacant

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.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 6: Moving premises

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.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 11: Presentations

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.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 10: Setting personal goals

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.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 7: Networking and small talk

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.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 8: Negotiations

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.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 12: Making proposals

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.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 9: Dilemmas

In this lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students learn about dealing with dilemmas at work and how to be objective.