English:
- Read the newspaper and magazines regularly, watch documentaries and listen to Radio 4 and podcasts.
- Go to the theatre, museums and galleries.
- Write. Journals, shorts stories, poems, articles, reviews, blogs, etc.
- Search out and enter writing competitions (the AQA, many universities and writing websites regularly have essay-writing or creative writing competitions). For example: http://thepinkmist.co.uk/about/
- www.kings.cam.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/offerholders/reading-lists/english.html
- www.english.cam.ac.uk/cambridgeauthors/
- Paradise Lost: www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darknessvisible/
- Poetry Society: www.poetrysociety.org.uk/
- Literary Review: www.literaryreview.co.uk/
- Times Literary Supplement: www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/