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Some people believe that people who read books can develop more imagination and language skills than those who prefer to watch TV. Discuss both views and give your own opinions.

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It is true that the question of whether people who read books or those watching
TV
 can develop more imagination and
language
 skills remains a resource of controversy in these days. While a number of people believe that reading books is the most effective way to enhance their imagination and
language
 capabilities, I would argue that increasing those skills by watching
TV
 is much more reasonable. On the one hand, there are a variety of reasons why people consider reading books as a method to raise their frame of mind and expression skills.
Firstly
, every book has its own phraseology style with diversified words which helps readers to expand their vocabulary and grammars. As a consequence,
language
 learners can improve their reading and writing skills effectively.
Secondly
, as books, mainly include the description of authors going along without images or photos, readers aspires to imagine about the book's content and at the same time, build up their own imaginary world of reading. My grandfather
also
 learned Chinese by reading books as his main method to study a new
language
 and due to hard learning, he did it well.
On the other hand
, I believe that reading limits some skills
such
 as speaking and listening which watching
TV
 can easily help us.
For instance
, people often just keep their eyes on pages, but not speak out loud while reading books. By contrary, watching
TV
 requires viewers to concentrate on listening and seeing what are going on, that definitely improves their listening skill.
Besides
, through a Television screen, people can observe speakers’ movement of mouth and emotion, lively scenes and interesting programs which could create an interactive environment for both studying and entertaining regarding to viewer’s purposes. In conclusion,
although
 reading books are advantageous for some people to expand their imagination and
language
 skills, it seems to me that it is better and more interesting way to watch
TV
 to adopt those capabilities.

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