The document discusses how instructional plans help realize general goals through translating them into syllabus objectives. It explains that a curriculum provides overall goals and policies, while a syllabus guides daily instruction by breaking goals into more specific objectives. A good syllabus design considers language content, learning processes, and expected learning outcomes or products. Language content includes themes, situations, structures and forms. Process looks at how content is organized and presented, and the roles of teachers and learners. Products are the language skills and knowledge students are expected to gain. The document provides examples of how goals map to these three dimensions in syllabus design.