HURAIAN SUKATAN PELAJARAN
MALAYSIAN UNIVERSITY ENGLISH TEST (MUET)
TINGKATAN ENAM ATAS DAN BAWAH
SKILLS TO BE TAUGHT
Among the skills to be taught in
class:
1. Recalling information
2. Recognizing main ideas
3. Recognizing supporting details
4. Deriving meaning of words,
phrases, sentences from context
5. Paraphrasing
6. Predicting outcomes
7. Applying a concept to a new
situation
8. Understanding language
functions
9. Distinguishing the relevant from
the irrelevant
10. Distinguishing fact from opinion
11. Identifying roles and
relationships
12. Following the development of a
point or an argument
13. Summarizing information
14. Appraising information
15. Making judgements
16. Drawing conclusion
17. Recognizing and interpreting
speakers views, attitudes or
intentions
LISTENING COMPONENT 800/1
LEARNING OUTCOMES SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
Learners will be able to: Practise the skills by listening to
these genres:
1. Recall information from stimuli 1. Songs, news, instructions,
2. Relay information announcements, briefings, talks,
3. Select relevant details dialogues, conversations,
4. Interpret information based interviews, lectures, meetings,
stimuli provided discussions, advertisements,
5. Identify language functions debates, documentaries, etc.
6. Extract key ideas 2. Briefing on MUET.
7. Follow the line of argument 3. News items and later followed by
8. Restate information given short test items which
9. Identify speakers role and implement
relationships information-transfer technique
10. Infer speakers intention, tone 4. Listen to news texts and
and matching
attitude the headlines with the contents
11. Transfer non-linear information heard
into linear form 5. Listen to some study packages
12. Justify opinions and extract information; and
13. Sequence information later
14. Rank or prioritize information making a decision of the courses
15. Make predictions based on chosen.
information provided 6. Justifying choices of products or
opinions on certain issues
7. Listen to a range of short texts
to
identify similarities and
differences
8. Listen to a talk and organize
information to complete a table
9. Sequence information based on
a
history lecture in chronological
order
10. Listen to a segment of a story
and
predict the outcome

SKILLS TO BE TAUGHT
Among the skills to be taught:
1. Using grammatically correct
language.
2. Using correct pronunciation,
stress and intonation
3. Speaking with confidence
and
fluency
4. Using language appropriate
for the intended purposes
and audience
5. Using varied sentence
structures
6. Observing conventions
appropriate to a specific
situation
7. Developing and organizing
ideas
8. Using appropriate markers
and linking devices
9. Using anaphora
appropriately
together with other cohesive
devices
10. Defining, describing,
explaining
11. Comparing and contrasting
12. Classifying
13. Giving reasons
14. Giving opinions
15. Expressing relationships
16. Making suggestions and
recommendations
17. Expressing agreement and
disagreement
18. Seeking clarification
19. Asking for and giving
information
20. Persuading
21. Drawing conclusions
22. Stating and justifying points
of views
23. Presenting an argument
24. Managing a discussion
25. Task fulfilment
SPEAKING COMPONENT 800/2
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learners will be able to:
1. Speak using appropriate and
correct language
2. Speak confidently, fluently
and effectively to
communicate ideas and
opinions
3. Select, organize and present
information to the audience
4. Speak in response to the
opinions and ideas of others
5. Observe appropriate social
conventions
6. Speak persuasively to
convince others
7. Speak to fulfil task within
the
prescribed time
8. Use correct pronunciation,
stress and intonation for an
intended purpose and
audience.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
Practise the skills by:
1. Viewing samples of various
oral genres like debates,
interviews, public speaking,
elocution contests and
forums
2. Reading up on local and
global issues
3. Viewing the MUET Speaking
VCD on the individual and
group presentation
4. Understanding the
requirements of the task by
scrutinizing the rubrics or
instructions
5. Making appropriate and
effective introduction or
opening statements as a
speaker in a forum
6. Developing and organizing
ideas on a current topic
7. Making appropriate and
effective concluding remarks
as a public speaker on the
benefits of a college
education
8. Expressing and supporting
viewpoints with examples
and
elaboration on the pros and
cons of dieting
9. Using appropriate linkers
and
cohesive devices
10. Brainstorming to generate
ideas
11. Preparing a talk on some
current social issues
12. Speaking in response to a
given stimulus
13. Role-playing as a news
reader
14. Discussing and deciding in a
group
15. Individual presentation
16. Group interaction

SKILLS TO BE TAUGHT
Among the skills to be taught:
1. Skimming and scanning
2. Extracting specific
information
3. Identifying main ideas
4. Identifying supporting
details
5. Deriving the meaning of
words, phrases, sentences
from the context
6. Understanding linear and
non-linear texts
7. Understanding relationships
in a sentence
8. Recognizing a paraphrase
9. Predicting outcomes
10. Applying a concept to a new
situation
11. Understanding language
functions
12. Interpreting linear and non-
linear texts
13. Distinguishing relevant from
the irrelevant
14. Distinguishing fact from
opinion
15. Making inferences
16. Relating ideas and concepts
in a paragraph
17. Following the development
of
a point / argument
18. Summarizing
19. Appraising
20. Making judgement
21. Drawing conclusion
22. Recognizing and interpreting
writers views, attitudes or
intentions
READING COMPONENT 800/3
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learners will be able to:
1. Extract key ideas
2. Match information
3. Rearrange ideas in a text
4. Select relevant ideas
5. Derive meaning of words
from context
6. Identify language functions
7. Follow the lines of argument
8. Restate information given
9. Select correct linking
devices
10. Interpret linear and non-
linear texts
11. Synthesize information from
linear and non-linear texts
12. Infer writers intention, tone
and attitude
13. Identify conventions, style
and tone
14. Extract specific information
from a literary text
15. Sequence, rank or prioritize
information
16. Making predictions
17. Evaluate information given
18. Justify opinions
19. Identify relationships in text
20. Relate a particular concept
to other similar situations
14. Interpret a combination of
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
Practise the skills by reading
these genres:
1. Journals, newspapers,
magazines, manuals,
advertisements, academic
texts, electronic texts, etc.
2. Identify topic sentences,
viewpoints, elaboration,
generalization in a text.
3. Distinguishing fact from
opinion
4. Identifying cause and effect,
compare and contrast
5. Identify bias for / against in
editorials
6. Rearrange jumbled
paragraphs into a coherent
text
7. Read a text on use and
abuse
of chemical substances
8. Match headlines to news
articles
9. Read brochures related to
studies and weigh the pros
and cons
10. Plot mind maps to organize,
classify and prioritize
information
11. Compile a portfolio of
authentic non-linear texts
12. Study maps, charts,
statistics, pictures and
diagrams to interpret
information accurately
13. Read a variety of short texts
to identify similarities and /
or differences
linear and non-linear texts

SKILLS TO BE TAUGHT
Among the skills to be taught:
1. Using correct spelling and
mechanics
2. Using correct grammar
3. Using correct sentence
structures
4. Using varied vocabulary and
expressions
5. Using clear varied sentences
6. Using appropriate language
7. Observing the conventions
8. Developing and organizing
ideas
9. Using appropriate markers and
linkers
10. Using anaphora with other
cohesive devices
11. Defining, describing, explaining
12. Comparing and contrasting
13. Classifying
14. Giving reasons
15. Giving opinions
16. Expressing relationships
17. Making suggestions and
recommendations
18. Expressing agreement
19. Persuading
20. Interpreting information
21. Drawing conclusion
22. Stating and justifying points of
view
23. Presenting an argument
24. Task fulfilment
WRITING COMPONENT 800/4
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learners will be able to:
1. Using correct conventions
2. Using correct language
3. Using appropriate register
4. Cohesion and coherence
5. Appropriate style and tone
6. Personal response based on a
given stimulus
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
Practise the skills by:
1. Studying samples of various
genres
2. Using appropriate and varied
vocabulary
3. Identifying a range of style and
tone
4. Write reports, articles, letters
and
essays
5. Write appropriate and effective
conclusions
6. Express and support viewpoints
with examples and elaborations
7. Using appropriate linkers /
cohesive devices
8. Develop and organize ideas on a
current topic using sequencing
principles (e.g. time, space and
cause-effect)
9. Rearrange jumbled paragraphs
from a newspaper into coherent
text
10. Differentiate irrelevant
information on a talk on road
safety
11. Write 150-word article or report
in response to non-linear texts
12. Compare and contrast the offers
given by three prepaid mobile
phone cards
13. Comment on current social
issues
14. Write an essay in response to a
given stimulus