Topic : Which do you prefer, watching movies or reading books? |
When me and my friends come to a situation where we have to choose between watching movies and reading books, we often choose the former choice. Personally however, I have the preference for choosing reading instead of watching movies. I think that reading books has far more advantages than those of watching movies. Admittedly, the advantages are the wider range of vocabulary, stimulation of one’s curiosity, and the second-hand experience. First of all, reading enables him or her to improve their vocabulary skills. Reading books involves coming across many words. Since books often contain words that one might not be familiar with, it entails the reader’s pains of consulting the dictionary. Hence, going through the process of comprehending and memorizing those unfamiliar words, people eventually end up having a wider vocabulary range. In contrast, the same thing do not involve in watching movies because people are likely to simply ignore or pass through the exotic words without even making the efforts to look up the dictionary. People cannot possibly improve their vocabulary skills if they repeat the same ignoring process. Moreover, reading makes people stimulate their curiosity. Let’s assume that I am playing a computer game. Once I start playing, I seem lose my sensation of the game and cannot prevent myself from playing until I reach the next level. The same thing applies to reading. Once people start reading the book, majority of the people do not put down their books until they book is finished. This is because he or she cannot pull themselves out of their reading world unless they find out what happens next. To put it more simply, the curiosity of reading books stimulates the readers that holds them from laying down their books. Last but not least, people can experience things not directly, but indirectly. This can also mean that one is able to find morals through second-hand experience. With the newly found morals, he can apply it to his present life or even to his future life. On the other hand, others might say that finding morals is also possible through watching movies. This is true, but movies are mainly based on entertainments, not on teaching instructive contents to people. For those reasons that reading enhances one’s linguistic skills, stirring the reader’s questioning minds, and undergoing things in a roundabout way, I definitely favor reading over watching movies. In my opinion, I think that reading not only has a great influence on my linguistic skills but also in my social life as reading gives me ample knowledge on coping with led downs in the near future. Therefore, like there is a word such as a chain-smoker, I would like to be a “chain-reader”. |