Teaching EFL Listening via FUN WITH ENGLISH Books/Introductory Lesson

Preface
My first week at this positon started on Wednesday, September 1st 2009. Until that Friday I was basically doing version 0.1 (based this lesson largely off lessons I gave in Japan the year prior) of this plan to 50-ish students in their own classrooms. After that my colleague Mr. Brown arrived and I taught version 2.0 to 25+ kids in the English Salon. Overall they went OK, nobody got killed, but I ran my first class of second semester quite differently. I'd recommend basing your first lesson off the latter, not this. I was too much of a friend here, by round two I introduced myself as their teacher.

Introduction
Learning Outcome: Students and teacher will learn one another's names, and get to know each other.

Plan

 * 1) Introduce Myself
 * 2) * 4 Minutes
 * 3) * Name, country, home city, favorite foods and sports.
 * 4) * Check to see if they understand.
 * 5) Have students make a line.
 * 6) * 5 Minutes
 * 7) * Tell students they have to line up by birthday, and that they can only speak in English.
 * 8) Name and Pictures
 * 9) * 10 Minutes
 * 10) * Tell students to come forward, shake hands with me and tell me their English and Chinese names.
 * 11) * I will then take a picture and they have to write their names down, along with their favorite food.
 * 12) * Afterwards, students have to fill in the desks accordingly, not where they were sitting before.
 * 13) Students Interview One Another
 * 14) * 20 Minutes
 * 15) * Students will interview one another to introduce their partner to the class.
 * 16) * Name? Favorite Food? Least Favorite Food? Hobby? Dream? Why do you want to study English? Fear?
 * 17) ** Pick 3 questions, based on their level.
 * 18) Ask if Students Have Any Questions for Me
 * 19) * 5 Minutes
 * 20) * If they don't move on.

Extra Time

 * 1) 2 Truths, 1 Lie
 * 2) * 15 Minutes
 * 3) * Ask if they know what a lie is?
 * 4) * Explain that we are going to play a game where they will write down 2 truths & 1 lie.
 * 5) * Prompts:
 * 6) ** My favorite food is ...
 * 7) ** My dream job is ...
 * 8) ** I am afraid of ...
 * 9) ** My favorite music is ...
 * 10) ** My favorite subject is ...
 * 11) Hangman
 * 12) * 5 Minutes

Acknowledgments
Idea for negotiation rules with the kids came from my boss at East Meets West China at our 2009 Orientation Meeting in Shanghai.