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Some people subscribe to the belief that reading helps enhance language skills and creativity, whereas watching television does very little for these abilities. Personally, I support this opinion for several reasons, which will be laid out in this essay.

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As we all know, books use text to convey ideas and quite often there are no images or illustrations to picture the scenes described in the
book
;
therefore
, we have to use our own imagination while reading.
For example
, reading a fantasy novel that contains mythical creatures one would normally see the appearance of those characters in their mind while following the plot.
In contrast
, movie heroes on a
TV
 screen are usually created for the viewer by directors and producers of the film. Watching
TV
 substitutes the need to develop one’s own imagination because the characters and their surroundings are shown on the screen.
Furthermore
, 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
book
, and they grasp its meaning from the context, without having to look it up in a dictionary. Not only new
words
 but
also
 numerous sentence structures can be learnt from books. To take advantage of these benefits 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
TV
 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
this
 makes a
book
 a more effective tool for a language learner compared to
TV
. In conclusion, I believe people who love to read tend to have a more active imagination and advanced linguistic comprehension than those who watch television, since readers are required to imagine the story in the
book
 and learn the meaning of new
words
 from the context.
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