Relax, here's the "energizing" book that overworked language and content area teachers have been waiting for! Zero Prep is just that: a collection of exciting activities demanding zero preparation. The over 100 pages of sensational activities are divided by language skills into user-friendly chapters that invite you to find the ideal activity quickly and successfully! Every activity is clearly presented with the level, aim, materials, and step-by-step procedures. This collection features unique "routines" which can be done in dozens of ways without extra preparation. Whether your focus is on teaching language or on teaching content, or both, Zero Prep has tons of ideas that will help your students become active participants in their own learning so that you as a hard-working professional have more time for creative lesson planning and enjoying your students.

Does this idea sound familiar? It is! In response to the demand for another book like the popular original Zero Prep, only geared to the needs of beginning language students, the authors have created this dynamic second title! Whether your beginning students are eager from the start, or reluctant at first, you'll find activities for helping you create wonderful lessons without exhausting yourself. As beginners cannot yet create new language, but they can re-create and reformulate language that they encounter, these activities give many ways to provide language input, including routines for using readings, dictations, pictures, actions, and songs to convey meaning. Plus you'll find activities to help students get to know each other, find their own errors, and take charge of their own learning. Perfect for group or individual work, this volume is another must-have in your library of resources.

What could you do with 5 ingredients or less? Could you create an incredibly delicious, easy, no prep meal for your whole family? Chrissy Taylor will show you how. This special and unique collection of 100 slow cooker recipes features traditionally-based recipes with a twist, taken up a notch thanks to surprising flavor additions and using different spices. Chrissy’s recipes require no browning, no prep and no special ingredients. Mouthwatering favorites include Slow Cooker Jerk Chicken, Enchilada Quinoa and Homemade Bread. Also included are Vegetarian, Fish & Seafood, Breakfast and Sauce options. Give your oven a break and impress your family with No-Prep Slow Cooker. This book features 100 delicious recipes and 60 mouth-watering photos.

Linguistic complexity is one of the currently most hotly debated notions in linguistics. The essays in this volume reflect the intricacies of thinking about the complexity of languages and language varieties (here: of English) in three major contact-related fields of (and schools in) linguistics: creolistics, indigenization and nativization studies (i.e. in the realm of English linguistics, the “World Englishes” community), and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research: How can we adequately assess linguistic complexity? Should we be interested in absolute complexity or rather relative complexity? What is the extent to which language contact and/or (adult) language learning might lead to morphosyntactic simplification? The authors in this volume are all leading linguists in different areas of specialization, and they were asked to elaborate on those facets of linguistic complexity which are most relevant in their area of specialization, and/or which strike them as being most intriguing. The result is a collection of papers that is unique in bringing together leading representatives of three often disjunct fields of linguistic scholarship in which linguistic complexity is seen as a dynamic and inherently variable parameter.