A moment of levity

I love it when my students, who come to me with very low levels of English, say completely unexpected things in English. This happened with my lowest English student the other day. The counselor who visits my class weekly was having the boys and girls lined up in rows. The object of this was that the girls told what the boys did to them, and vice versa, while the listening gender couldn't make any faces--they had to make eye contact and not look away or laugh.

One of the boys failed almost immediately because he was looking at the other side of the room, and the counselor took away a point. At which my low English student (a boy) yelled, in English, "Samuel, how could you do this to our team??" One of those funny moments that makes you happy inside--when you realize that at the beginning of the year, he wouldn't have even been able to say that.