One of the most popular downloads for Junior High teachers over the last year has been the Famous People cards. Well over on the forum there has been a couple of great threads of everyone’s recommended internet links.
One brilliant site, found by Gumby, is of cartoons of Japanese celebrities. The site is in Japanese, but if you click on the gallery page, even if you don’t read Japanese you can click on a few random names and I’m sure you’ll recognise them from TV. On the next page everyone’s name is written in Roman Letters as well, to help you out.
They’re great for spicing up lessons e.g. just drop them into the target conversation instead of boring old he/she/ characters from the textbook etc. Almost guaranteed to make teenagers sit up and pay attention!
