I guess our presentation was decent. We planned out what we would teach and the process in which we would do it very carefully. This worked out quite well because we used a very good concrete example ("I reads well" and the rocket ship) to explain the concepts. We then were able to motivate the students with showing them how simple it could be to conjugate by making a little story to go along with the lesson. Also using the race was a great way for the students to get motivated about the experience.
I think there were a lot of things that we could have improved on. It did seem all that much like a teacher oriented classroom. Before doing the race, we could have started by conjugating the "yo" and then asking students to come up and conjugate the rest. We also should have asked students to maybe work in groups to conjugate or we could've had the groups race against each other instead of individuals. I think another problem Jason and I had was that we didn't really distribute responsibilities amongst each other. We should have had one of teach half of the material and the other teach the other half. This can be a problem with teaching. The teacher needs to prepare beforehand what precisely he or she will do and then create a bag of tricks if all else fails.
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