Funny

This language will help you Special Features

say what people look like in
any situation. 


Faces
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She is wearing . . .

Describe . . . glasses.
- a criminal to the police.
 . . . earrings.
- a missing person.
She has a scar.
- friends & family members.

She has a mole.
- your ideal person.
- yourself !

He has a cowlick.
- a person in a crowd. 

- a person whose name you 

don’t remember

He has freckles.

He has a unibrow.

He has wrinkles.

He has bags 

under his eyes. Use the language
within to describe
He has a mustache. what people

Me! look like!
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 Facial Features Hair
Describe a face to your friends. Can they pick out the correct face? Good luck! 6. Hair
Hair

He / She has . . .
1. FACIAL TYPES


He / She has . . . 

. . . a square face.

. . . a round face. 

. . . a wide face.

. . . a thin face. 
 . . . long, straight hair.
. . . a long face.

. . . short, curly hair.

2. Eyes

2. Eyes

He / She has . . . long lashes.

He / She has . . . round eyes. 

. . . short lashes. 

. . . thin eyes. 

. . . arched eyebrows.

. . . light eyes.

. . . bushy eyebrows.

. . . dark eyes.
. . . thin eyebrows.

. . . short, wavy hair.

3. Mouth and Lips
 4. Nose
 5. Ears


He / She has . . . a small mouth.
 He / she has . . . a small nose.
 He / she has . . . big ears.
 . . . short, shaggy hair.
. . . an average mouth.
 . . . a long nose. 
 . . . small ears. 

. . . a wide mouth.
 . . . a wide nose. 
 . . . long ears. 

. . . thin lips.
 . . . a round nose.
 . . . pointy ears.
. . . thick lips. . . . a pointy nose.

. . . a buzz cut.
cut.

. . . a crew cut.
. . . no hair! He is bald.

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CH ALLE
Find pe
ople wi
t h one of these
cuts?

Ca n you

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Funny Faces

This is a sheet that I’ve been using for quite a while now. It just works extremely well every time. I’ve used this worksheet over
and over again with students and every single time it’s been a huge hit. The simplicity and the activity make it incredibly fun and
helps it work for mixed-level classes which can always be a bit tough. 



How to use the worksheet.

1. Elicit an example from students. Ask them to describe someone from a movie, or a friend of theirs. This helps show
the strengths or weaknesses of students and identifies the need for this particular practice. 

(At about this time I have the students tell me situations when they might want to describe what someone looks like.)

2. Go over the worksheet as a group quickly to introduce the vocabulary and sentence patterns. Most of the language
is purposely made as simple as possible in order to allow students to use the vocabulary easily which is possibly the
hardest part of this activity. 



3. 

Option 1 - Give students image cards with pictures of people’s faces on them like the ones in the picture. I’d say
drawing your own, or having students make them up in an activity is a great exercise too. One student describes the
face to their partner and their partner draws it. I’ve been really surprised how alike my drawings my students‘ images
have been simply based on the descriptions given. A great role play for this is as a police sketch artist. You can also do
this with real peoples‘ faces but I find it works best to start with the drawings and move on from there. 



Option 2 - If you have a particularly small class, have one person, or you yourself can read out a description for the
others to draw and see whose image is closest to being correct. Do this in turns. 



Option 3 - Play a game of guess who by laying out lots of cards with similar faces on them and having students pick
the one face out of the group. 


Note: 

On several occasions my class hosted other visiting students for an activity in which the visiting students were of
various levels. My students practiced explaining the situation the visitors would be taking part in, (describing a robber
to police.) Once set up, even the absolute beginners were able to use the worksheet to communicate and were quickly
able to do the task without the worksheet which is the goal. For some higher level students the sentence patterns are
easy but the vocabulary is a challenge. So everyone I’ve done this with has had a great time while learning some
great, useful language.