Apparently, Tact Is A Foreign Concept To This Kid

I teach French as a foreign language. A couple of weeks ago, I was playing a game with my students where I clipped a picture of a celebrity to each one’s back and they had to ask their classmates questions (in French) to find out who they were.

One was Angelina Jolie, born in 1975. During the game, I mentioned that she was only two years older than me. The student recapitulated the information he’d already found out for himself but audible to the ones around him, including me:

Student: “Actress, American, old…”

To the class’s credit, they immediately gasped in horror.