What are faults?

A fault is when something doesn’t work right because there’s a problem inside it.

Imagine you have a toy car that usually zooms around your room. One day, instead of going straight, it starts spinning in circles like it's doing the cha-cha. That spinning might be because there's a fault, a little mistake or break inside the toy that makes it go wonky.

Sometimes, a fault is like when you drop your ice cream cone on the ground. The cone breaks, and the ice cream squishes out. That’s not fun for you, just like how a fault can make something stop working or act strangely.

When grown-ups fix things, they often look for faults. They might check under the hood of your toy car or take apart your broken ice cream cone to see what went wrong. Fixing faults helps everything work better again, just like how you can enjoy your ice cream once it’s fixed!