Looking for quality TEFL teaching materials-will pay money!

I don't deny that the internet is chock full of free lesson ideas, grammar handouts, but I'm looking for ideas that would be appropriate for low beginners and that make sense within the hagwon learning environment. Many of my classes are still working on basics such as likes and dislikes...favorite things.  I always feel a little ridiculous when beyond fruits and vegetables my textbooks offer food vocabulary such as burgers, hot dogs, cupcakes...So when we talk about our "favorite foods," besides there's really only three options that they can communicate and that I'll be able to understand.  It would be easier if I knew how to identify and order my new Korean favorites in a restaurant environment.  

In my middle school classes, one of our text books addresses the concept of favorite singers.  In one book, the fictional "Joe Curtis" is everybody's favorite singer.  There are fictional star magazine interviews with Joe Curtis in which he talks about his favorite foods, which are of course cupcakes and pizza, and how he can play the guitar and the drums but can't fix a car. My younger students are easier to entertain and keep somewhat focused with simple activities, I'm having a hard time finding common ground with the middle school students.  I've deduced that they know who MIchael Jackson is, but for most of them he doesn't seem to be their favorite singer.  The hagwon's sticker reward system is no longer effective at about the sixth grade level. But the funny thing is if I don't hear anyone outside speak English all day long, in all of the public areas (retail stores, some restaurants) there's often some foul mouthed English language hip hop that makes me giggle because nobody else seems to notice the parts about sluts who like it doggie style. That part aside, I'd like to try to use music somehow in these classes.  I've often snickered to myself as I thought about teaching English via gangster rap...teaching the vocabulary of the AK 47, etc. 

My point is that I know there's plenty of material out there but figuring out how to fit it in to the language level and cultural circumstances is a bit of a challenge.  I still don't know where to find English language magazines that might have lower level pop culture type articles.   I still am desperate for imagery to supplement my activities.  There isn't a surplus of second hand magazines just laying around.  I guess I should just figure out a good spot to shop for Korean magazines with a lot of pictures.  

That said, since my teaching skills are still developing and my schools materials are somewhat lacking I'm willing to pay for quality materials online.

Of course I keep running into eslkidsstuff.com, eslflow, mes-english, esl HQ, eslmonkeys, musical english, esl tower, I find that some sites have a restricted members only area.  The onestopenglish 'staff room' requires $64.00, and handouts online $22.00.  The genkie english site is compelling as it seems to have been developed with someone with experience teaching in Japan.  I can imagine in Japan there would be similar issues in finding common ground, so I'm interested in this site.  When I did a search to determine if other users found that it was worth the money, I merely found another interested person asking the same thing.  

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