The proper translation of a yawn is "Juan". How could you miss that?

Pedigree perdon is Spanish for Excuse me.

My French teacher does the same thing, except it's every day. If she catches you speaking in English to a classmate, you get deducted marks which in total count for 10% of your class grade

gettingg in trouble for being polite ? thats something new

salo

It all depends on the school system in each country!! When I did my Irish oral exam last year (Irish is compulsory in the school curriculum here in Ireland), the teacher said to say absolutely everything in Irish as much as you possibly can BUT if you really can think of a word say it in English but go but to Irish straight away. This is because Irish is a dead language in most parts of the country as 70% of people here speak English with no notion of Irish, other than students who learn it but never speak it again after they complete their Leaving Certificate. And it's an extremely difficult language to learn also if you don't come from a house that speaks it fluently. It's quite sad since we ARE Irish natives.

My teacher is same, may be more of a bitch.

Que se vaya a la verg@.

That's simply unfair and for those who are saying that OP should know how to say excuse me in Spanish, it doesn't matter if they do know it when it was their natural instinct to excuse themselves in their first language. I know people with Spanish as their first language who switch between Spanish and English all throughout conversation and not because they don't know the word but certain things like "ay dios mio" is instinctual for them to say in Spanish, its hard to break a habit just like how we say Oh My God without thinking all the time!!

for some reason Spanish teachers tend to be mean