Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe

1. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face by Wojciech Wachowski

Reading Year 2

2. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

3. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

thick, shoulder-length hair
wavy/ frizzy hair
age/worry has greyed her hair
she is greying at the temples/ going grey
wrinkles/ wrinkled neck
thin lips
pointed nose

4. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

5. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

wrinkles
a swarthy face/ complexion/ woman
high cheekbones
has her hair in a bob (short at the front while the other
hair is cut to neck length all around the head)
• a raven-haired woman
• a high forehead

6. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

7. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

• a centre parting
• bushy eyebrows
• has bags under his eyes/ eyes with dark
circles/ rings round his eyes
• looks a bit haggard
• deep-set eyes
• floppy/ droopy cheeks
• floppy ears
stubble/ a five o’clock shadow
designer stubble

8. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

9. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

freckles/ she freckles easily/ freckled skin
ginger hair/ red-haired/ a redhead
a sallow complexion/ sallow skin/cheeks
she is wearing a high-necked pullover to hide
her scraggy neck
• thick, wavy hair
• a prominent nose

10. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

11. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

(going) bald
he has a bald spot/ patch
to get thin on top
a wry smile
has a blank expression (on his face)
protruding ears
chubby face
he’s getting a double chin (fat around the chin)
stout

12. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

13. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

• he has bared large, (stained), forwardslanting teeth/ crooked teeth
• he has a crooked bite
• ears stick out/ has sticking-out ears
• is cross-eyed
• four-eyes
• gap-toothed

14. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

15. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

slanting eyes
a lump/ a beauty spot/ a mole on his face
going bald
a bit thin on top
a high forehead
fleshy lips

16. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

17. Let’s face it, it’s hard to describe a face

bloodshot eyes
has bags under his eyes
wears his grey hair parted on the side and combed back
red face
he/ his face has gone/turned (very) red
is red in the face
sleepy eyes
he is looking from under half-closed lids
he is looking through half-closed eyes.
clenched his teeth

18. Elastic face