"Relli also raised the rather frightening fact that most of the literature, not to mention the syllabus, seems to be dictated to us by the publishers, with the Ministry just following in their footsteps." Actually, I believe that the literature books were published with the demands of the Ministry in mind which should result in a thank you from teachers. The material which was added was at the time new and is now of course old. As so many teachers were ignoring literature altogether, why should the publishers have put out more new stuff. When the new program is finalized, I am quite sure that new material will materialize from the publishers and that there will be many interesting choices. Sue ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------