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                Practise What You Know!actise What You Know!
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                   Read the following words carefully. Colour the box red if the word belongs to a male
                   person or animal. Colour the box green if the word belongs to a female person or an

                   animal.

                              son                      king                      hen                  queen

                             aunt                      man                       boy                    fox

                             lion                      cow                 grandmother               daughter


                            father                    sister                  woman                      ox





                  Let’s Learn Gender


                A  gender  classifies  the  nouns  in  different  groups,  mainly  masculine  and

                feminine.

                Look at the given pictures.











                     grandfather                grandmother                    father                  mother











                           son                    daughter                       king                   queen


                The words used for males belong to masculine gender.

                The words used for females belong to feminine gender.
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