It has been seen that reading for pleasure develops imaginations and better language skills than to watch TV. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Wrtie at least 250 words.
Sample Response
Some people believe that reading for pleasure is more useful than watching television since readingreading habit improves people's creativity, imagination and language skillscreativity and imagination, and language skills more than watching TV can. To a certain extent, I would agree with the statement, but I do believe that watching educationaleducative television programmes could also have positive effectsbring positive outcomes.
Reading enhances the creativity of people who enjoy it. Every book opens up a new window to the mind of the reader. It makes them wonder, walks into a realm they never thought would exist and put them in the centre of an impossible situation when they have to critically think about the characters and their situations presented by the writer. This engages their brainsbrain and imaginative capacity, whichimagination power which research shows is conducive to developing the imaginationpositively developing imagination. In additionBesides that, regular readers get used to seeing proper grammar, formal language and new collocations every now and then, and they absorb many of these patternstheir brains pick many of these allowing them to use such forms independentlygiving them the ability to use them by themselves. It gradually improves their ability to handletheir skill in handling the complex aspects of a language.
HoweverBut, watching educationaleducative television programmes for a prescribed duration of time can also bring benefits to viewersthe audiences. Some television channels trigger their viewer's imaginative and creative thinking, such as National Geographic or Discovery Channel while many TV documentaries are highly prised for their ability to engage viewers making them wonder about what they see and hear. News channels like BBC and CNN are often recommended by language teachers because these channels have been shown to improveas those news channels are proven to improve listening and communication skills.
In conclusion, it is expressed by many people that reading has more positive effects on developing people's creative thinking and language skills. To a certain extentpoint, I would agree with this viewagree with it, but I also believe that watching appropriate educational television programmeswatching appropriate and educative television programmes can improve our imaginationcan also improve our imaginative thinking and communication skills.
Why this response received Band 7.0
The essay is well organised and develops plausible benefits of both reading and educational television, with a clear qualified position throughout. Its main limitation is that the comparison is not weighed directly enough and several awkward collocations and agreement errors reduce precision; the highest-priority improvement is to compare the two activities explicitly and then support the degree of agreement with cleaner, more idiomatic sentences.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
The response maintains a qualified position and develops relevant advantages of reading and educational television, but it does not directly compare their relative effectiveness in enough depth.
Explicitly weigh why reading develops imagination and language skills more effectively, or specify the conditions under which television offers comparable benefits.
Coherence and Cohesion
Ideas follow a clear introduction-body-conclusion structure, and each paragraph has a recognisable central focus despite some overloaded sentences.
Use shorter sentence units within the body paragraphs so each supporting point and comparison advances in a cleaner sequence.
Lexical Resource
The vocabulary shows good range and communicates nuanced ideas, but recurring awkward combinations such as reading habit, imagination power, and benefits to the audiences reduce naturalness.
Replace translated or over-engineered phrases with established collocations such as a reading habit, imaginative ability, and benefits for viewers.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The essay uses varied complex forms, but noticeable agreement, reference, and sentence-control errors recur in longer constructions.
Check that coordinated verbs share the correct subject and form, particularly in sentences such as It makes them wonder, walks into a realm and put them.
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IELTS Writing Task 2
It has been seen that reading for pleasure develops imaginations and better language skills than to watch TV. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Wrtie at least 250 words.
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