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If you're looking for some of the best ways to kill some time during your ESL/EFL classes, check out these time-filling ESL activities and games. They're perfect for the end of class when you have a few minutes to spare but nothing planned in your lesson. Every teacher needs a few of these ESL timer-filler games and activities in their back pocket in case of emergency!

The best part? These time-filling activities are great for reviewing whatever you taught during that lesson. Have some fun will TEFL filler activities and games.

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Timestamp:
0:00 Intro
0:40 Dictation
1:08 Phone show and tell
1:27 Chain spelling
1:51 Just a minute
2:39 20 questions
2:53 Conclusion

Transcript for ESL Time-Filler Activities:

Hey everybody, it's Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about my top five ESL time fillers. And now I know time fillers or time killers: maybe not ideal to do when you're teaching. However, there is sometimes that few minutes at the end of class and maybe you've gone through your entire lesson super quickly and then you have a few minutes and you're not quite sure what to do. So here are some things that are great for filling the time and the even better news is that most of them are quite educational.

My first one that I have is dictation. So this is a little bit old school but it's quite a valuable activity for helping students work on things like spelling, grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary. You just say a sentence and then students write it down in their notebook. I like to level it up and if I dictate a question to them, they have to write the question as they hear it and then they can fill in whatever answer they want. Or if I give a statement or an answer, they have to come up with a question. Learn more about it here:    • Dictation ESL Writing and Listening Activi...  .

Number two is phone show and tell. All students have phones mostly if they're like high school age or above. I get students to find an interesting picture on their phones and then if I have a very small class, we can do show and tell with the class. Or they can do it in a small group. Of course, it should be done in English.

And the next one is chain spelling. This is a great way to review any vocabulary. All the students stand up, you say a word and you go in a circle. The first student will say the first letter, next letter, next letter, next letter. Whoever misses a letter has to sit down and then the game continues on until the last person is left standing. So that one is obviously better for beginners rather than advanced learners who will find it quite simple and boring to do.

The next one. This is one for more advanced learners. It's called just a minute. So the challenge is that students have to talk for one minute without stopping so I'd use this as a warm-up sometimes and do general categories like hobbies, sports, movies, food, etc. You could also use it as a review based on whatever you are teaching in class. So put students into groups of four and write down the general categories on the whiteboard. Get one person in the class to scrunch up a piece of paper, and throw it at the board. Whatever category it hits, the first person in each group has to talk about it for one minute without stopping. The other three members in the group have to listen carefully and then ask a follow-up question. Repeat the process with a new topic and then for the remaining three students. Check it out:    • Just a Minute ESL Speaking Activity: Try o...  .

All right, finally, this is kind of just a fun one, 20 questions. I'm sure you've played it before. You can play it with your students too. More advanced students can do anything, any kind of noun. For beginners, I usually will do maybe like 10 questions and I'll restrict it to jobs or animals or something like that. All the details here:    • ESL Speaking Game: 20 Questions | 20 Quest...  .