Strategic use of coursebooks, if approached creatively, can greatly streamline the preparation process for teachers and make lessons more beneficial for students.  We know that all the activities on a standard page can be done in under 20 minutes … but would that be effective? What if there’s a way to create 60- and 80-minute lessons using a single page of a course book?  In my presentation, I'll discuss how to minimize reliance on additional resources by fully exploiting what the course book offers. I will invite teachers to work in the breakout rooms and share their expertise on the topic.   I will touch upon Lexical Approach activities, which greatly enhance the effectiveness of the lesson, and suggest a wide variety of low-preparation activities to be added to the standard ones in a coursebook.   Additionally, I’d like to cover how to differentiate between semi-controlled practice activities and freer/fluency speaking practice activities. This distinction ensures that learners engage in balanced language practice, addressing both accuracy and communicative competence. Often, coursebooks offer oral semi-controlled activities as speaking practice at the end of a page. I would like to invite participants to critically asses them and make necessary amends to create true speaking tasks.