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In a chapter entitled 'Planning lessons and courses', Scrivener (2005) suggests that before teaching an actual class, it helps if a teacher is clear about what they want to do. Although one can not ever completely predict how learners will respond to anything in the class, a lot is going to happen and the better prepared a teacher is, the more likely it is that he/she will be ready to cope with whatever happens. In this sense, planning is a