What you're holding in your hand is much closer to a set of detailed lesson plans than to a traditional textbook. As you read through it, your first reaction may be "Who does he think he is, telling me exactly what to say and when to say it?"

Please don't take it that way. Take it this way instead.

Over a period of time, I have developed a set of in-class assignments, homeworks, and lesson plans, that work for me and for other people who have tried them. If I give you the in-class assignments and the homeworks, but not the lesson plans, you only have 2/3 of the story; and it may not make sense without the other third. So instead, I am giving you everything: the in-class assignments and the homeworks (gathered together in the student book), the detailed explanations of all the concepts (the other student book), and the lesson plans (this document). Once you read them over, you will know exactly what I have done.

What do you do then? You may choose to follow my plan exactly, for a number of reasons because it worked for me, or because it looks like a good plan to you, or just because you have enough other things to do without planning a lesson that I've already planned. On the other hand, you may choose to do something quite different, that incorporates my ideas in some form that I never imagined. This book is not a proscription, in other words, but a resource.