As well as aiming to read well written magazines, essays, and online material, read as many books as you have time and inclination for.

GRANTA, which describes itself as "the magazine of new writing", takes on a new topic in each issue, and comes at it from different angles, with a dozen or so essays, stories and poems.

Students should read different genres in both source and target languages including modern literature, contemporary prose, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, announcements, instructions, etc.