It has been said that people who read for pleasure have more developed imaginations and better language skills than people who prefer to watch TV. Do you agree or disagree?
Nowadays, reading and watching
TV
are two of the most important one’s leisure activities. However
, it opens a controversial question as to whether reading or watching TV
would enhance people’s imaginations and language
-related skills. From my perspective, I believe that reading brings more benefits than watching TV
to some extent for the following reasons.
Reading for pleasure, on the one hand, can allow people to improve better imaginations and language
skills. Firstly
, reading which is considered to be an active method of knowledge acquisition allows readers to create their own characters or construct different interpretations of a text. Take Harry Potter which is a series of fantasy novels as an example, it brings readers to another world of wizards and magicians so that they have to use their creativity and imagination
to visualize their characters. Secondly
, reading can also
do wonders for one’s language
skills. By doing this
, people can boost not only their vocabulary, but different grammatical structures. For example
, one can pause at any moment to ponder the meaning of a word in different contexts- which is of paramount importance when learning a new language
.
On the other hand
, watching TV
does little to increase people’s imagination
. Although
it is undeniable that TV
offers lively and colourful images than books, viewers can only watch passively the things given by TV
programs; hence
, they use their imagination
little. Besides
, in today’s digital world, TV
is full of advertisements which sometimes distract someone from what they are watching and therefore
it contributes to losing one’s focus. However
, people can improve their listening and speaking skills via watching TV
programs such
as BBC News, which can affect people’s way of communication. As a result
, watching TV
also
brings advantages to viewers
In conclusion, to comprehensive development language
ability, people have to combine both reading and watching. However
, because of the enormous merits of reading in terms of imagination
, I believe that reading is more an effective way than watching on the small screen.Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Writing9 with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.