Face To Face - Describing A Person English Language Worksheet Page 3
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Read and listen to the text. How is Beth’s
Read the text again and write true or false for
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personality different now that she’s older?
1–6. Correct the false sentences.
1 Beth and Jasmine look different from each other.
2 People always make comments about Beth.
3 Some albinos have got dark skin.
4 Beth is happier now than she was in the past.
D I F F E R E N T
5 When Beth is friendly to people, they’re more
normal with her.
6 People are tolerant about colour but not about
religion.
Beth and Jasmine Thomson
are sisters, but they’re very
different. When you’re an
albino like Beth, people
are curious about you and
sometimes cruel. But Beth
has learnt to be positive …
Fifteen-year-old Beth Thomson
is walking down the street
with her sister Jasmine. Beth is
pale-skinned and has got long,
white hair and white eyebrows.
In contrast, her sister Jasmine
is dark-haired and her skin is
also darker.
While they’re walking, some
people stare at Beth, and one
or two make comments. One
man says, ‘Hey, look at the
ghost!’, but Beth doesn’t react.
‘People often comment,’ she
says. ‘They’re curious, and
they can sometimes say cruel
things.’
Beth is one of 3,000 albinos
in Britain. That’s one in every
17,000 of the population. A
genetic condition causes an
albino’s skin to be very pale
and sensitive, and they’ve
usually got problems with their eyes. They’re
‘People are often intolerant. It’s sad,
often short-sighted and glasses don’t help much.
but true. It doesn’t matter if it’s the
colour of your skin, your religion or your
But Beth is happy. ‘It’s OK now because I’m much
clothes – if you’re different, people don’t
more confident. I was incredibly shy and sensitive
usually like it. But that makes me more
when I was younger. But if I’m friendly and speak
determined to be strong!’
to people, they think that I’m not really different,
and they’re more normal with me.’
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