second entry! third period...

Well, in this second time I was expecting to give my class without any problem. I got early to my classroom that day, however I started my class a little bit late because I was pasting the material on the board for the warm up I was going to do wih my students. I was a little bit nervous about the class because I know that sometimes it is not easy and you do not what you are going to face with. Every class has a different experience. I think that it is a little bit easier to prepare the class if you have a text book to guide yourself to find the best activities in which the students can get involve and active and in which they can also develop the four macro skills such as: reading, writing, speaking and listening.
Looking for the best activities is something very difficult but it is really exciting when you look at the results at the end of class.
I started the warm up with an activity that consisted on making two groups and each group made a line in front of the whiteboard, I dictated some verbs in the simple present tense and they wrote them down in the imple past form, the line that had most correct verbs was the winner. It was really funny, the students enjoyed the activity and in that way I could see how much they had learn about the simple past tense in the previous classes.
The only problem was that I took too much time making that actvity that I did not finish with some other activities that I had prepared for them. I think that the most difficult problem I can find when making a lesson plan is timing the activities, it is a little bit challenging.
After that I gave them a piece of paper with an activity called: "board game" and in pairs they had fun in that activity, making sentences, saying verbs in past, saying irregular and reguar verbs, they could practice a lot in that activity.
My second activity was an in individually form in which the students had to rewrite some verbs from the simple past tense to the simple present tense and backwards. after doing it, they chose 10 verbs and made ten sentences using those verbs.
the last activity was a reading comprehension. In pairs, they read a paragraph about the simple past and after reading it they completed some sentences.
Every time I ask my students to work in some actvities I like to monitor their work and check what they are doing to see how much they have learned in my class.
I also had prepared a role play for them but I could not do it because I did not time well my activities, but I was satisfied with the work I did and with the results I saw in that classroom.