This journal contains news items and articles for teachers of English in Israel. The following news items are included: Listening Comprehension Test, 1978; news from the Bagrut Examinations, 1978; summer schools in Great Britain, 1978; Bagrut Examinations, 1975-1978; in-service courses; "English Teachers' Journal" subscription; new textbooks; English newspapers in school; updated curriculum for schools; the Hertzog-Toynbee debate; achievement tests in English; and NETA for grade 8. The remaining contents are: "Notes Toward a Syllabus for Teaching English to Socially-Disadvantaged Pupils" by Raphael Gefen; "Suggested Syllabus for 'Gemer-Masmar' Students"; "Guidelines for the Two-Point Programme in the Secretarial and Tourism Trends"; "English Language Achievements of Israeli Secondary School Students" by Arieh Lewy; "Teaching Reading to Beginners" by Zafra Tatcher and Elana Neumark; "News from the Instructional Television Centre" by Sheila Been, Dvora Ben-Meir, and Sional Kronfeld; "A Practical Application of a Theoretical Analysis: Teaching Less-Able Learners" by Boaz Sarig; "Incongruencies in Lexical 'Gridding'--An Application of Contrastic Semantic Analysis to Language Teaching" by M.B. Dagut; "Fifth Annual Conference of the Israel Association for Applied Linguistics" by Andrew Cohen; "Materials for Teaching Native Speakers" by Patti Golan; "Books for English Speakers" by Yael Gefen; and "The Place of the Notebook in Teaching English" by Mella Elammy. Letters to the editor and synopses in Hebrew of the contents of the issue are also included. (SW)