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It's the same in Norwegian schools. Up to the first year of high school, the grades are given based mainly on language (spelling, grammar, construction of sentences). After that (i.e. the last two years of high school), content becomes more important.
 
Same in Germany. The last two years were spent evenly on cultural studies of UK and US and advanced language skills.
 
We did comprehension exercises and creative writing in our final (GCSE) years of senior school, with some functional writing in various styles, such as writing travel brochures, conducting debates etc. A level English (age 16-18) was linguistic studies and it was terrifying.
 
Well, to be honest, (it all comes back now, when I think harder about it), we did focus on other stuff. E.g. we suggested our teacher to play Rime of the Ancient Mariner (english culture of the highest order:edmetal: !), which was a good link to what she wanted to teach about poetry. Also, we had to read books and talk about them.
 
Oh, we read a lot of classic English literature. Shakespeare, Stoker and Hemingway spring to mind right away. Oh yeah, and Blake and Whitman. And probably lots more.
 
We didn't do a lot. I think we discussed it earlier. We could choose from a list, and did not have to read at least X from writer A, or Y from writer B. Perhaps 10 books at the end of a school year.

Funny that Germans were more focussed on classical English literature during secondary school (high school) than the Dutch.
 
I don't know, I can only tell you what it was like in the school I went to.
 
I had to find something else to do in every English class I attended. Otherwise I'd sleep through it. I wish we had English literature reading sessions. There's absolutely none of that in public schools here. They can't really teach anyone English anyway, students have to find their own way of learning it.
 
In Poland they didn't have English literature either when my wife went through high school. (Afterwards she went to English teacher's training and then English philology, with lots of English literature).

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I just heard they did English (and Russian, French, Italian, German) literature on highschool, but in Polish language! They learned about the content, and historical perspective and meaning of the books, and if translated well, they also learned about the style.
 
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I also read German books on high school, because German was one of the subjects I had chosen. German and French (a.o. subjects) are not obligatory.
And Dutch books of course. Best literature on the planet. :D ;):whogivesafuck:
 
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I had to find something else to do in every English class I attended. Otherwise I'd sleep through it. I wish we had English literature reading sessions. There's absolutely none of that in public schools here. They can't really teach anyone English anyway, students have to find their own way of learning it.
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Besides reading sessions, the bigger focus was reading books at home, individually, and remember what they were about. Then, in a one on one talk with the teachers you had to answer questions as best as you could.
 
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