planning

«planning» in Mova's school dictionary: deciding and arranging what you will do and how, before… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (planning, uncountable); verb form (-ing of plan: plan, plans, planned, planning)

meaning for a pupil

1) Planning is deciding and arranging what you will do and how, before you do it. tree →

2) Planning can mean a plan or notes made before writing, building or doing something, like story planning. tree →

3) Planning is also the official process of deciding what can be built in a town (planning permission). tree →

4) Be planning to do something means to intend to do it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school: planning a story (beginning, middle, end), planning an investigation in science (question, method, fair test), planning in maths problems (what do I know, what do I need, which steps). In everyday life and safety: planning a trip, packing, a fire escape plan, telling someone your plans when you go out. Phrases: «good planning», «planning ahead», «planning to», «planning permission», «in the planning stage».

examples

• Good planning makes the trip much easier. tree →
• Do your story planning before you start writing. tree →
• We are planning a surprise party for Mum. tree →
• I'm planning to learn to swim this summer. tree →
• Planning ahead helps you not forget anything. tree →
• They needed planning permission to build the extension. tree →
• Our class spent the lesson planning the science experiment. tree →
• Fail to plan, plan to fail. tree →
• And she set off homewards again, cheerfully planning all the grand things she was going to do with her money. tree →

note

Double the n: «plan → planned, planning». Do not confuse with «planting» (putting seeds in the ground) or «planing» (smoothing wood with a plane). Planning is uncountable: «some planning», not «a planning».

In the corpora

• Much housework is invisible, like booking appointments and planning meals, so each grown-up may not see what the other does.
• It fixes roads, empties bins, runs parks and libraries, and decides on planning: whether people may build big extensions.
• The council is the local government that looks after roads, parks, bins, libraries and planning, run by elected councillors.
• People must ask the council for planning permission before building something big, and neighbours can object.
• Later Mum explains: Grandpa needs a small operation and they were planning the trip to visit him.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «planning» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.