I like the idea of "put it in your pocket", I'll try it out next week.

Pick up your textbook (the one which all the students have on their desk). Open the book on any page. Let the students ask you YES/NO questions about what you can see on the page. The winner is the student who can identify the page you are looking at.

Then give the book to that student. She/He opens the book at any page and answers YES/NO questions about what she/he can see on the page ...

And so on

My teenagers love playing the word association game for the last five mintures of the class. I say a word, for example summer, then the next person says a word associated with that, beach, and then you continute playing around the class. You can also play it as a category game, so if you want to revise vocabulary to do with sport, or adjectives, then everyone has to say a word in that category. We make it more competitive by clapping/tapping a pen, and then each person has four/five seconds in which to think of a suitable word. If they don't then they are 'out' and the last remaining person is the winner!

Hi Fernanda,

Attached is a document containing 62 different ideas many of which are useful as fillers.

Nick

Here are 2 more:

An ABC game - One child says the ABC to himself, another says stop, then the first child tells everyone at which letter he stopped. The first child to bring the teacher an object beginning with that letter gets a point.

"When I go to the moon" - Begin with a sentence like "When I go to the moon I will bring ......." (adjust the sentence to whatever grammatical structure you're teaching at the time). The objects that each person is allowed to bring must follow some secret rule which everyone has to guess, e.g. objects that begin or end  with the same letter as that person's first name, begin with the last letter of the previous object, have a certain letter in the word, etc. Each child takes a turn repeating the sentence and anyone who names an object which fits the rule can come. For less advanced classes I write the accepted objects on the board with the name of the child bringing them. No one should say the rule out loud - anyone who thinks they have guessed it should say what they want to bring.

There's a bunch of ESL games and activities here on video.