Kids Learn With ConceptOnce children can name people, they need a shorter way to talk about them — so they do not have to say “Ann” four times in four sentences. That is where he and she come in, and with them the idea of male and female.
Read these sentences
Ann is a girl. She likes to dance.
Alex is her brother. He likes to paint.
⭐ We use she for a girl or a woman. We use he for a boy or a man.
Sorting people into HE and SHE
| HE | SHE |
|---|---|
| father | grandmother |
| son | daughter |
| uncle | mother |
Male and female
A boy or a man is called a male. A girl or a woman is called a female.
Example: father is a male and mother is a female.
Similarly, for animals we use different words for males and females:
| Male | Female |
|---|---|
| lion | lioness |
| horse | mare |
| drake | duck |
More animal pairs to practise
Practice from the lesson
- Read the words and write them in the correct column, HE or SHE: grandmother, father, son, uncle, daughter, mother. (Grandmother is done for you.)
- Write the male or female names for these animals, using cow | peacock | hen | tiger. The pictures will help you.
Answer key for grown-ups
1. HE — father, son, uncle. SHE — grandmother, daughter, mother.
2. tiger – tigress | bull – cow | peacock – peahen | cock – hen
A quick tip for parents
He and she are easy on paper and hard in speech, and mixing them up is one of the most common habits Indian learners carry into adulthood. The cure is to catch it kindly at six, not at sixteen. When your child says “my sister, he is coming”, do not correct with a rule — just repeat the sentence back correctly and carry on talking. Ten quiet repetitions beat one explanation.
English Grammar Workbook — Class 1
This lesson is one chapter. The workbook has all 15, in order, with far more practice than a single page can hold — naming words, special names, one & many, gender, pronouns, a/an, this/that/these/those, action words, describing words, opposites, prepositions, is/am/are, has/have, was/were and punctuation.
- Concept first, then practice — the rule is explained in a child's words before a single blank has to be filled.
- Colourful picture-based exercises that Class 1 children actually finish.
- A complete answer key at the back, so a parent can check the work in a minute.
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