1. I am at present
exposing students to forming acceptable English words in the form of nouns,
adverbs, adjectives and verbs. When I asked my Form 5 students, "What is the
verb for the word ‘danger’?", one of them promptly replied ‘dange’.
2. When I asked the
Upper Primary students what an apron was, a Year 4 student said, “Mother cooked
the thing to wear.”
3. When referring to a
photo, I asked a student about the children in the photo. "When was this photo
taken? Was it taken when they were sick or after they had got better?" She
promptly replied, ‘When they were sicking.”
4. My students are
quite confused as to why a hen can lay an egg but a mother does not lay a baby.
5. Masterskills is a
college of Nursing and Health in Malaysia. If pronounced wrongly, it somehow
would not be a college I would recommend to anyone who wants to take up
nursing. My student pronounced it as ‘Master Kills’.
6. This incident was
told to me by my friend whose son recently sat for the SPM exam. He was
supposed to write a letter to the local City Council. He confidently wrote his
salutation, “Dear Mr and Mrs Council’.
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