Planning a lesson is like planning a trip – you can go hiking without very detailed plans for a short time, but when you go on a longer trip or holiday, you’ll definitely need something more detailed. Especially, when you’re not going alone, but taking family, friends or your students with you.
As with your trips, you have to plan where you want to end up, how you want to get there, what are the things you want to see during your journey, what are the things you need to take with you, and what are the places where you want to stop and have a bit of a rest or look at more things.
Also, before you start walking, you would like to warm up a little bit, and at the end, you have to finish it off somehow, not just leave it all behind and jump back home.
In the following sections you can read about these in more details.