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It’s believed that people who read for pleasure develop their imagination more and acquire better language skills compared to people who prefer watching television. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience

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 that reading improves language skills and creativity, whereas watching television does very little for these abilities. Personally, I support
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 with, books use text to convey ideas as there are no images or illustrations to picture the scenes described in the
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, we have to use our own imagination while reading.
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, reading a fantasy novel would normally see the appearance of those characters in their mind while following the plot.
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, movie heroes on a
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 screen are usually created for the viewer by directors and producers of the film. Watching
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 substitutes the need to develop one’s own imagination because the characters and their surroundings are shown on the screen.
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, it is argued that reading is the best way to expand one’s vocabulary. The reader learns the correct spelling of a word by seeing it printed in a
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, and they grasp its meaning from the context, without having to look it up in a dictionary. Not only new words but
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 numerous sentence structures can be learnt from books. English teachers in many schools use English novels as teaching materials. Students are asked to read the story and capture the keywords to answer the questions in the exam. In comparison, learning new words while watching a
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 show isn’t always easy because the viewer’s attention is drawn to the action on the screen and if there are no subtitles, the spelling of the words is not obvious. All
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 makes a
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 a more effective tool for a language learner compared to
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. In conclusion, I believe people who love to read to have a more active imagination and than those who watch television, since readers are required to imagine the story in the
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 and learn the meaning of new words from the context
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