Practice for Describing People in English My mother has worked at a junior high school for roughly 40 years. She is hardworking and everyone says that she is a dependable teacher. Moreover, she has an eye for fashion and looks younger than her age. She often tells me that most of her students believe that she is still in her forties or fifties. (She is 62 years old, though.) You can see a very clear physical resemblance between her and me. I've run into her students several times when shopping with my mother, but what they say is always the same, "Wow, you are really alike!"