Advanced Supplementary Level

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USE OF ENGLISH

• Advanced Supplementary Level

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English Language

• You learn how to
• write grammatical English
• speak in English (for communication)
• read English for general understanding
• understand spoken English (through listening)

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AIMS (UE)

• To foster the development of students English
  language skills in order to equip them for
  tertiary education and/or employment.

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The exam will test the ability of candidates to

• understand and interpret spoken English as it
  might be encountered in academic or vocational
  situations
• write clear, concise grammatical English in an
  appropriate style
• demonstrate both global and detailed
  understanding of a variety of written texts
• understand and use spoken English for practical
  communications
• integrate reading, writing and study skills in
  the pursuance of task-based/problem-solving act..

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CONTENTS

• Four proficiency sections (A-D) which focus on a
  range of productive and receptive skills
• weighting 72

• A section E which concentrates on work and study
  skills.
• weighting 28

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SECTION A - E
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LISTENING (18, 1 hour)

• tests the ability of candidates to understand,
  organise and interpret spoken English as used by
  educated and fluent speakers of English as an
  international language
• the content will be appropriate to study and work
  purposes.
• The form of presentation may include dialogue as
  well as monologue.
• Candidates may, for example, be asked to complete
  matrices, graphs and sets of notes

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WRITING (18, 1.25 hrs)

• Tests the ability of candidates to write extended
  English discourse.
• Topics will be selected to encourage expository
  writing, e.g. persuasion, argument, reporting,
  development of hypotheses, organising of
  information, etc.
• a minimum of 500 words

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READING LANGUAGE SYSTEMS ( 18, 1.5 hrs)
A. Reading B. Language Systems
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A. READING

• Tests the ability of candidates to achieve an in
  depth understanding of an expository text.
• Skills tested to identify central ideas, the
  purposes and assumptions of the writer, to
  recognise the limiting effects of qualifications
  and exceptions, to relate cause of effect and
  evidence to conclusions.
• MC questions

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B. LANGUAGE SYSTEMS

• Test the extent to which the systems of the
  English language have been internalised by the
  candidates
• Formats matching, open cloze, gapped summary
  etc
• Item types may vary from year to year.

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ORAL (Exam time 20 mins)

• Presentation
• each candidate will be required to present a
  brief spoken account of a short written texts
  lasting from 1.5 - 2 mins

• Discussion
• the candidates will take part in a 10-minute
  discussion
• the discussion will simulate a study-related or
  work-related situations where it is assumed there
  is a problem to be solved or a task to be
  addressed.

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PRACTICAL SKILLS FOR WORK STUDY ( 28, 1.75HRS)

• tests practical communications through simulated
  work and study situations
• the set tasks involvelocating and processing
  information, identifying and solving
  communication problem, and carrying out
  communication tasks.
• test materials variety of texts in a booklet
• test itemsstudy skills reasoning skills,
  reading skills writing skills

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How can I get a better grade in AS UE?
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BY...

• Reading newspapers...

• help E - enhance reading skills
• help C - enrich vocab