A grown man, a grown woman, a young child, and for all of them together, people. A person can be tall or young, and you can say something about his or her hair. To ask, say What does she look like?
Man, woman, child, people
Try it: Ethan and Camila are at the community center. Ethan is one man. Camila is twenty-five years old. She is one ___. (woman / women / child) Answer: woman — Camila is one, and she is twenty-five, so the word is woman. Women is for more than one, and a child is young.
Try it: Maya: Who are they? Neighbor: My son and my daughter. He is six and she is nine. They are my ___. Choose the word: (children / child / men) Answer: children — There are two of them and they are young, so the word is children. Child is only one, and men is for grown people. And one of these two is a daughter.
Try it: Men, women and children are all at the community center. There are many ___ here. (people / woman / child) Answer: people — Men, women and children together are people. Woman names one of them and child names one of them, so neither is the word for all of them.
Word
Pronunciation
Example
man (men)
/mæn/
one man, two men
woman (women)
/ˈwʊmən/
one woman, two women
child (children)
/tʃaɪld/
one child, two children
people
/ˈpiːpəl/
many people
Tall and young
Tall means a long way from the feet to the head: the head of a tall man is near the top of the door. Young means few years: a child is young.
Try it: A child is six years old. His father is at the door, and the door is small for the father. His father is ___. (tall / young / hair) Answer: tall — The door is small for the father, so the father is tall. Young is for the child, who is six, not for his father. Hair is not a word for a whole person.
Word
Pronunciation
Example
tall
/tɔːl/
He is very tall.
young
/jʌŋ/
He is young.
Hair, and asking about a person
Hair is what grows on your head: my hair, her hair, his hair. To ask about a person, say What does she look like? for a woman and What does he look like? for a man. Keep the words in that order, as one group. The answer says tall, or young, or something about the hair.
Try it: You want Diego to describe a woman in his class. You ask: ___ (What does she look like? / How does she look like? / What she looks like?) Answer: What does she look like? — The group starts with what, not how, and keeps like at the end: What does she look like? Say it in that order every time.