Grammar and contextualise Headache

His mistakes were being recorded and photocopied as proof to check his performance and to be able to terminate him. All is because of 2 sentences:

1. 'My favourite food is hamburgers, hotdog, fried mee and western food.'

(Solutions: 'Foods' = different type of food / eg. Italian foods, Chinese foods;
'Food' can be singular and plural. So, 'my favourite food are hamburgers, hotdogs, noodles, fried mee... ' )

2. List down the animals you can find in the farm. (Based on the KBSR English Text book Primary 5, Pg. 4_)
Goats, cows, ducks,..., fish and prawns.

They argued about whether fish and prawns are considered farm animals and the pupils answered **based on the text** (Bare in mind, it is based on the text not a general questions)

Solution: From my point of view, fish and prawns are ANIMALS. If they are not, what are they supposed to be? Sea creatures? The question also never state that it should be animals on the land or MUST NOT count those that live in the ponds.

3. Name another 3 farm animals.
Some answered these: Dogs, sheep and rats.
Some argued that dog is not farm animal but we have shepherd dog that take cares of the farm. Yet, dog is not farm animal. Rat is not but we do know that farm has rats. Not to mention some farmers keep rats for some farming reasons.

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I think that the key is not that they can't judge but it is just that they did not practise 'Etika Perguruan'.


'Fish' and 'Fishes', what is the difference? (Find from the Grammar book of Prof G)
Fishes = different type of fish and they are LIVE fish living in the sea or the pond.
Fish = Dead fish, the fish you cook and serve on the table and also the plural of fish.