Includes indexes.

Introduction 1: THIS BOOK

Introduction 2: Why a Book for Beginning Students?

Introduction 3: Who We Are and Why We Wrote This Book

Chapter 1: LISTENING -- 1.1 Singing Dictation -- 1.2 Using the Telephone -- 1.3 Let’s Pack a Suitcase -- 1.4 Catch the Teacher’s Mistakes -- 1.5 Classic TPR -- 1.6 TPR: Making Tea -- 1.7 TPR: Making a Peanut Butter Sandwich -- 1.8 Who Said It? -- 1.9 Stand for Your Word -- 1.10 Noisy True/False -- 1.11 Silent True/False -- 1.12 Picture Dictation -- 1.13 Challenge! -- 1.14 Bingo -- 1.15 Gossip

Chapter 2: SPEAKING -- 2.1 What’s Your Name? Nice to Meet You -- 2.2 Please and Thank You -- 2.3 Taking Surveys -- 2.4 Carry the Message -- 2.5 Classroom Language -- 2.6 Reading and Speaking 3x3 -- 2.7 Let’s Put on a Play! -- 2.8 Correcting Papers 1: Seek and Find -- 2.9 Correcting Papers 2: Paper Swap -- 2.10 Correcting Papers 3: Paper Pairs -- 2.11 Concentric Circle Talk -- 2.12 Pointing-Out Fun

Chapter 3: READING -- 3.1 On the Wall Outside -- 3.2 What’s the Story? -- 3.3 The True and False Way of Reading -- 3.4 Popcorn Reading -- 3.5 Words and Definition -- 3.6 Add a Picture -- 3.7 Predicting from the Title -- 3.8 Predicting from the Picture -- 3.9 Finger Skim

Chapter 4: WRITING -- 4.1 Listening Dictacomp -- 4.2 Where is the Mistake? -- 4.3 Let’s Correct those Mistakes! -- 4.4 Reporter/Writer -- 4.5 Chain Story -- 4.6 The Disappearing Story -- 4.7 The Vocabulary of Paragraphs -- 4.8 Partners in Writings -- 4.9 Questions and Answers --- Writing -- 4.10 Revision: I Can Do It Myself! -- 4.11 Imaginary Gift Exchange -- 4.12 Learn Those Letters!

Chapter 5: VOCABULARY -- 5.1 All the Words We Know -- 5.2 Wall Dictionary -- 5.3 Disappearing Dictionary -- 5.4 From Pictures to Words -- 5.5 Two Unrelated Pictures -- 5.6 Spelling Improvement -- 5.7 Picture on Our Backs -- 5.8 Wallet Talk -- 5.9 Descriptions 1 -- 5.10 Descriptions 2: Have You Seen My Grandmother? -- 5.11 Sticks and Stones --- Practicing Numbers -- 5.12 What Am I Drawing? -- 5.13 Birthday Lineup -- 5.14 A, B, C Vocabulary Game -- 5.15 You Are Very Beautiful! -- 5.16 Vocabulary Cards -- 5.17 Make the Word Go Away -- 5.18 Can You Smell It? -- 5.19 The Hokey Pokey -- 5.20 Salad Bowl -- 5.21 Who is This? -- 5.22 Arithmetic Fun -- 5.23 What Day is It Today? -- 5.24 Our Birthdays -- 5.25 Working with Money -- 5.26 Checking the Weather -- 5.27 What’s My Number? -- 5.28 What We Know -- 5.29 Half a Picture -- 5.30 Vocabulary Chain -- 5.31 Wacky People

Chapter 6: STRUCTURE -- 6.1 Building Dialogues About Food (question formation) -- 6.2 What Do We Do? (question formation, do and does, negatives, present tense, short answers) -- 6.3 Cleaning Up the Mess (past tense) -- 6.4 What Is a Noun? Part 1 (nouns) -- 6.5 What Is a Noun? Part 2 (nouns) -- 6.6 Questions and Answers --- Speaking (question formation) -- 6.7 Think Fast! Practicing Verb Tenses (all verb tenses, pronouns) -- 6.8 When Suddenly (past tense, past continuous tense) -- 6.9 This Is My Red Elephant (positive adjectives; also, this, that, these, and those) -- 6.10 What Ahmed Does (present tense) -- 6.11 What You Do With a Bike (present tense) -- 6.12 Preposition Pictures (prepositions of place, present tense) -- 6.13 Can You Go? (articles, preposition of place) -- 6.14 School Supplies (prepositions of location, subject pronouns, present tense with be and have; this, that, these, and those) -- 6.15 Questions About Me (question formation) -- 6.16 Tell It Like It Isn’t (present continuous, negative)

General Index of activities

Alphabetical index of activities

“Does this idea sound familiar? It is! In response to the demand for another book like the original Zero Prep, 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 ideas that will help you create wonderful lessons without exhausting yourself. Beginners cannot yet create new language, but they can recreate and reformulate language that they encounter. The activities in Zero Prep for Beginners 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 at all ages, this volume is another must-have in your library of resources!” (Back Cover).