It has been said that reading for pleasure is better in developing imagination and language skills than watching TV. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

I partly agree with
this
statement. Because I think that reading books or watching
TV
develops different skills at different paste. I completely agree that reading books in your free time is better to develop your
imagination
. Because when reading a book there are very little or even no images
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is why people start to imagine how the carpenters look, their surroundings and their emotions. Of
course
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reading helps to learn
language
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the language
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, especially grammar.
TV
is not that good for developing
imagination
skills because you just see on the screen how the person who made the movie imagined it. Watching
TV
just gives small touches to your
imagination
.
For
example
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if haven't imagined a dragon or other crazy stuff.
On the other
hand
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TV
is great to learn a
foren
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language
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much better
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a book at least at
first
.
TV
can help to learn how to speak and understand it. overall both ways
reading
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a book or watching
TV
are good ways to improve
imagination
and language learning.
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