Translation into English Practice Mark Scheme

En los últimos años, cada vez más jóvenes profesionales han decidido abandonar las grandes ciudades para instalarse en pueblos de menos de mil habitantes. Gracias a la fibra óptica, muchos pueden seguir trabajando para empresas de la capital sin tener que desplazarse a diario.

Lucía, una diseñadora de treinta y cuatro años, se mudó a un pueblo de Soria hace dos años. «Aquí la vida es más tranquila y la vivienda cuesta la mitad», explica. Sin embargo, el centro de salud más cercano está a cuarenta kilómetros y el colegio solo abrirá si se matriculan al menos cinco niños. Aun así, los vecinos esperan que su llegada anime a otras familias a hacer lo mismo.

In the last few years,

Over the last few years,

Over recent years,

Recently,

In the last years (ER 2020: not natural English)

In the latest years

an increasing number of young professionals

a growing number of young professionals

increasingly, young professionals

young working people / young people with professional jobs

each time more young professionals

every time more

many young professionals (loses cada vez más)

professional young people who are more and more

have decided to leave / abandon / move away from / get out of (the) big / large / major cities

have chosen to leave

decided to leave (simple past accepted in English)

decide / are deciding (wrong tense)

have decided to abandon the grand cities

the great cities

in order to settle / move / live / set up home in villages

and move to small towns / villages

to settle down in villages

to install themselves in villages

for installing (themselves) in

to settle in peoples / in towns of people

for settling

with less than 1,000 / 1 000 inhabitants / residents / people

of under a thousand people

with a population of under 1,000

of less of a thousand habitants

with more than a thousand inhabitants

with a million inhabitants (mil = thousand)

with at least a thousand

Thanks to fibre optics / optical fibre / fibre-optic cables / fast broadband / high-speed internet,

Because of fibre broadband,

Thanks for the fibre optic

Grace to

Thanks to the optician

many (of them / people) can continue / carry on / keep (on) working

many are able to continue to work

many can still work

many can follow working

many can follow on working

many could continue (wrong tense)

many can continue to working

for companies / firms / businesses based / located / situated in the capital

for companies in Madrid

for companies from the capital

for capital-based companies

to companies of the capital

for enterprises of the capital

in order to companies / so that companies

without having to travel / go (into work / into the city) every day / daily / on a daily basis

without needing to commute each day

and do not have to commute every day

without to have to travel

without have to

without having to displace themselves

without having to move themselves to diary

without having to travel to the newspaper (diario = newspaper)

Lucía, a 34-year-old designer,

Lucía, a designer aged 34 / thirty-four,

Lucía, who is a thirty-four-year-old designer,

Lucía, a designer who is thirty-four,

Lucía, a designer of thirty-four years

a designer with 34 years

a designer of 44 (wrong number)

a designer of thirty-four

moved to a village / small town in (the province of) Soria two years ago

relocated to

moved to a Soria village two years ago

moved to a village of Soria two years ago

has moved to a village in Soria

moves / was moving to

changed to a village

mutated / muted to a village

moved for two years / since two years

moved two years ago to a people of Soria

“Here life is quieter / calmer / more peaceful / more relaxed / more tranquil

“Life here is slower-paced

“Here the life is quieter

“Here life is more tranquilised

“Life is quiet here (loses the comparative)

“Here life is more quietly

and housing / houses / homes / a house cost(s) half as much / half the price”, she explains / says / explained

and housing is half the price”, she explains

and the living costs half

and the viewing costs the half

and housing costs the half

and life costs half

he explains (wrong gender)

and housing costs a half

Without embargo,

Without any embargo

However, the most near health centre

However, the centre of health most close

the nearest hospital

is 40 km / kilometres away

is forty kilometres from the village

is a forty-kilometre drive away

is at forty kilometres

is to forty kilometres

is fourteen kilometres away (cuarenta = forty)

is forty kilometres (loses away / distance)

and the (primary / village) school will only open / reopen / run

and the school will open only

and the school will not open unless (+ box 17)

and the college will only open

and the school only opens (wrong tense)

and the school will open (loses solo)

and the only school will open

and the school would only open

if at least five children (are) enrol(led) / sign up / are registered / are signed up

if a minimum of five children enrol

if five or more children enrol

if they matriculate at least five children

if at least five children graduate

if at least five children register themselves at least

if less than five children enrol

if at the least five boys (niños = children here)

if five children enrol (loses al menos)

Still,

Nevertheless,

Despite this,

In spite of this,

All the same,

Even so, / Yet

Even like this,

Still like that,

Also so,

Even though,

And so,

the locals / residents / villagers / her neighbours hope (that) her arrival

the local residents are hoping that her arrival

the villagers hope (that) their arrival (referring to the newcomers)

the neighbours wait for her arrival

the locals expect that her arrival

the neighbours are waiting that

the villagers hoped (wrong tense)

his arrival (wrong gender)

will animate other families

will liven up / cheer up other families

animates other families to make the same

to do it the same

encourage the other families to make the same

Hace diez años, este pequeño pueblo de Oaxaca era prácticamente desconocido. Hoy, sus calles están cubiertas de murales que atraen a miles de visitantes cada año. Todo empezó cuando un grupo de artistas locales, que querían rendir homenaje a sus antepasados indígenas, pintó la fachada del mercado. Los vecinos, que al principio desconfiaban del proyecto, acabaron participando con entusiasmo.

Desde entonces, cada verano se organiza un festival en el que pintores de toda Latinoamérica comparten sus técnicas con los niños del pueblo. Según la alcaldesa, el arte ha devuelto el orgullo a la comunidad. «Me emociona que los abuelos cuenten sus historias a los jóvenes mientras pintan», afirma.

A decade ago,

10 years ago,

It makes ten years,

Ten years since,

For ten years,

Ten years ahead

this little / small village / town in Oaxaca

this small Oaxacan town / village

this small town of Oaxaca

this small people of Oaxaca

this little people

these small towns

a small town (loses este)

was virtually / almost / all but unknown

was hardly known

was barely known at all

hardly anyone had heard of it

is practically unknown (wrong tense)

was unknown (loses prácticamente)

was practically unknowing

was practically disowned

was a practical unknown

Nowadays / Now, its streets are covered in / with / full of murals / wall paintings

Today, the streets are covered in murals

Today, his / her streets

its streets are covered of murals

its streets are roofed with murals

its streets were covered (wrong tense)

its streets are covered in walls

which attract miles of visitors

which attract millions of visitors

which attracted (wrong tense)

which attract thousands of visitors each age

It all began when

Everything started / began when

All this started when a group of local artists

All started when

All began when

a group of artists locals

a group of artists from the locals

Everything starts when

who wanted to pay homage / honour / pay their respects

wanting to pay tribute

who wished to pay tribute

who loved to pay tribute (querer = want here)

who wanted to surrender homage

who wanted to render homage

who want to (wrong tense)

which wanted

to their native / Indigenous ancestors / forebears / forefathers

to their ancestors, who were indigenous

to their indigent ancestors

to their ancestors indigenous

to their antecedents

to his ancestors (sus refers to the artists)

to their past ancestors

painted the façade / facade / front / outside wall of the market (building / hall)

painted the market’s façade / front

paints the front of the market

painted the market

painted the fashion of the market

painted the facts of the market

The neighbours, who in the principle distrusted

who at the principle

who distrust the project (wrong tense)

who were unconfident of the project

who were unconfident with the project

ended up participating / joining in with enthusiasm / enthusiastically

eventually / in the end took part enthusiastically

finally joined in with enthusiasm

finished participating with enthusiasm

ended participating

stopped taking part

ended up participating with enthusiasts

end up taking part (wrong tense)

Since then, each summer

From then on, every summer

Ever since, each summer

Since then, each winter

Since when, every summer

Since then, each year / every spring

a festival is held / is put on / takes place

they hold / organise a festival

there is a festival

organises a festival (wrong order, no subject)

a festival organises itself

a festival was organised (wrong tense)

is organising a festival

at which / where painters / artists from all over / across / throughout Latin America

in which painters from the whole of Latin America

in the which painters

in which painters of all Latin America

in which all Latin American painters

in which painters from all Latin (incomplete)

compare their techniques

share their technicians

shared (wrong tense)

share their techniques with the children of the people

According to the (female / woman) mayor,

The mayor says (that)

In the mayor’s view,

According to the mayor’s wife

According to the town council (alcaldesa = mayor)

According to the alcaldesa

Second the mayor

art has restored the community’s pride / restored pride to the community

art has brought (the) pride back to the community

art has given back the community’s pride

art has made the community proud again

the art has returned the pride to the community

art has devolved the pride

art gave back pride (wrong tense)

art has returned to the community

art has taken pride from the community

“It is moving / touching to see that grandparents

“I’m moved / touched that (the) grandparents / the elderly / older people

“I love the fact that grandparents

“It emotions me that

“I emotion that

“Me emotions that the grandparents

“I’m emotional that the grandfathers

“It excites me that

tell young people their stories

tell their stories to the young / youngsters / the young people

share their stories with young people

count their stories

tell their histories

told their stories (wrong tense)

as they paint / while they are painting”, she says / states / declares / asserts / affirms

while painting”, she says

”, he says (wrong gender)

”, she confirms

while they painted

”, she affirms that (incomplete)

while paint

Cuando Amina llegó a Almería desde Marruecos en 2009, no hablaba ni una palabra de español. Hoy trabaja como mediadora intercultural en un centro de salud, donde ayuda a pacientes extranjeros a entenderse con los médicos. «Muchos inmigrantes no acuden al médico por miedo a no comprender lo que les dicen», explica. Su labor no se limita a traducir: también les informa sobre sus derechos y les acompaña a la hora de hacer trámites.

El ayuntamiento ha anunciado que el año que viene contratará a otros tres mediadores para que ningún vecino se sienta excluido por no dominar el idioma. Aunque el servicio sea gratuito, todavía son pocos los que lo conocen.

When Amina came to Almería

When Amina got to / reached Almería

When Amina arrived to Almería

When Amina arrives in Almería

When Amina had arrived

since Morocco in 2009

from Morocco since 2009

from Marruecos (country must be translated)

in 2019 / 2090 (wrong number)

she didn’t speak / couldn’t speak / did not know a (single) word of Spanish

she spoke not a single word of Spanish

she spoke no Spanish at all

didn’t speak not a word (double negative)

she doesn’t speak

she didn’t speak neither a word of Spanish

she did not speak Spanish (loses ni una palabra)

not speaking a word (no subject)

Today / Now / Nowadays she works as an intercultural / a cross-cultural / a cultural mediator

Today she is an intercultural mediator

Today works like an intercultural mediator

she works like a mediator

she works as a mediator intercultural

she worked as (wrong tense)

she works as an intercultural medium

in a centre of health

in a hospital

in a salad centre

in a health centre of salud

where she helps patients from abroad / from other countries / overseas patients

where she assists foreign patients

where she helps strange patients

where she helps strangers

where she helped

where helps foreign patients (no subject)

where she helps patient foreigners

to communicate with / make themselves understood by / understand each other with / talk to doctors

to understand and be understood by the doctors

to understand themselves with the doctors

to understand the medicines

to entertain themselves with the doctors

to agree with the doctors

“Many immigrants don’t go to / see / visit the doctor(’s) / a doctor

“Lots of immigrants avoid going to the doctor

“Many immigrants do not accede to the doctor

“Many immigrants don’t come to the doctor

“Many immigrants don’t help the doctor

“Many immigrants didn’t go (wrong tense)

“Many emigrants (reverses the meaning)

because they are afraid / scared / worried of not understanding / that they won’t understand

out of fear of not understanding

for fear to not understand

by fear of not understanding

for fear not to understand

for fear of not comprehend

because of fear to not understanding

that which they say

what they say”, (loses les: they say vs they are told)

what she tells them

what they tell him / her

”, he explains (wrong gender)

Her job / role / work does not only involve / goes beyond / isn’t just / isn’t restricted to translating / translation

Her work does not stop at translating

Her labour limits itself to translate

Her work is not limited to translate

Her work does not limit itself

His work (wrong gender)

Her work limits her to translating

she also tells them about / gives them information about / advises them on their rights

she informs them about their rights too

she also informs them over their rights

she informs them about their rights (loses también)

she also informs them about their duties

she also informs them about their rights straight away (derechos ≠ straight)

also informs (no subject)

and accompanies / goes with / helps them when they do / fill in / sort out / deal with paperwork / forms / official procedures / red tape / bureaucracy

and accompanies them when carrying out official formalities

and accompanies them at the hour of doing

and accompanies them at the time to do tramits

accompanies them when doing tramits

accompanied them (wrong tense)

The (local / city / town) council / town hall has announced / announced that

The council has said that

The government has announced

The ayuntamiento has announced

The meeting has announced

The town council announces (wrong tense)

next year / in the coming year it / they will hire / recruit / take on / employ

it will hire next year

the year that comes it will contract

next year it will contract

next year it would hire (conditional)

last year it hired

next year it hires

other three mediators

others three mediators

three mediators (loses otros)

thirteen mediators

three mediums

for that no neighbour feels excluded

so that no resident sits excluded (sentarse ≠ sentirse)

so that no resident feels himself excluded

so that any resident feels excluded

so that no resident will be excluded (loses sentirse)

because they have not mastered / are not fluent in / do not have a good command of the language

for not having mastered the language

for not speaking the language well

for not being fluent in the language

for not dominating the language

for not dominating the idiom

to not dominate the language

because they don’t speak the language (loses dominar: they speak some)

by not dominating

Even though / Although the service is / may be free (of charge)

Although it is a free service,

Despite the service being free,

Although the service is gratuitous

Although the service is grateful

Although the service was free

Although the servant is free

Although the toilet is free (servicio)

still only a few / not many people know about it / are aware of it / have heard of it

there are still few people who know about it

those who know about it are still few

they are still few who know him

they are still little who know it

few people know him

still few people knew about it

few people know about it (loses todavía)

the few who know it

Durante los años cuarenta y cincuenta, la escuela fue uno de los principales instrumentos del régimen franquista. Los niños y las niñas estudiaban en aulas separadas y la religión católica era una asignatura obligatoria. Muchos maestros que habían apoyado a la República fueron expulsados de la profesión, y sus puestos fueron ocupados por personas leales al régimen.

Los alumnos solían cantar el himno nacional antes de empezar las clases, mientras que los libros de texto presentaban una visión muy parcial de la historia de España. A las niñas se les enseñaba sobre todo a coser y a cuidar del hogar, ya que se esperaba que fueran buenas esposas y madres.

During the forties and fifties / the ’40s and ’50s / the 1940s and 50s,

In the 1940s and 1950s,

During the forty and fifty years

During the fourteenth and fifteenth

During the seventies and fifties

During forty or fifty years

school(s) / education was one of the main / principal / chief / most important instruments / tools / weapons

schools were one of the main tools

the school was one of the main instruments (article: penalise once)

school was one of the principals

school was one of the principle instruments (ambiguous)

school is one of the main instruments

of the Franco’s regime

of the Franquist regimen

of the Franco regimen

of the French regime

The children and the girls studied

Children and girls studied

The boys and the girls studied (article: penalise once)

Boys and girls study

in separate classes / rooms / schools

separately

in separate halls / auditoriums

in classrooms separated

and Catholic religion / Catholicism / religious education / RE was a compulsory / mandatory / required subject

and pupils had to study Catholic religion

and the Catholic religion was an obligatory signature

was a compulsory assignment

was an obligation

is a compulsory subject

Many (primary) teachers / schoolteachers who had supported / backed the Republic

Many teachers who supported the Republic

Many masters who had supported

Many teachers who have supported

Many teachers who had leaned on the Republic

Many teachers who had supported to the Republic

Many teachers that had supported the republic’s masters

were expelled from / removed from / dismissed from / banned from / driven out of the profession

were barred from teaching

lost their jobs

were expulsed of the profession

went expelled

were expelling from the profession

are expelled

expelled the profession

and their stalls / stands were occupied

and their posts were busy

and they were occupied

and their places are filled

for people loyal to the regime

by people legal to the regime

by loyal people of the regime

by people loyal to the regimen

Pupils / Students / Schoolchildren would sing / usually sang / normally sang the national anthem

The pupils used to sing the anthem

The alumni used to sing

Pupils were alone singing

Pupils sang the national hymn

Pupils use to sing (wrong tense)

Pupils were used to singing (different meaning)

before lessons / classes / school started / began

before starting lessons

before the start of lessons

before to start the classes

before of starting

after lessons started

while the books of text presented

while the textbooks presented themselves

while textbooks present

while the text books were introducing

a very partial vision

a very biased vision

a partial view (loses muy)

a very partly view

of the Spanish history (article: penalise once)

of the story of Spain

of Spain’s histories

of Spain history

Girls were taught / shown

They taught girls / Schools taught girls

The girls were taught

To the girls it was taught

The girls taught themselves

The girls were teaching

Girls are taught

Girls learned it themselves (se les ≠ reflexive)

mainly / mostly / especially / above all (how) to sew / sewing

above all how to do needlework

over all to sew

about everything to sew

above all to cook (coser ≠ cocer / cocinar)

above all to sow (ambiguous spelling)

to sew (loses sobre todo)

and (how) to look after / take care of / run the home / house / household

and housekeeping

and to keep house

and to care of the home

and to look after the fire / hearth

and to be careful of the home

and to look for a home

as / because / since it was expected that they would be / become

since they were meant to be / become

because people expected them to be

already that it was hoped

since it was waited that they were

since they were expected to go (ir ≠ ser)

since they expected to be (subject changed)

since it is expected that they are

good wives and mothers

good spouses and mothers

good housewives and mothers

good handcuffs and mothers

good husbands and mothers

good wives and mothers-in-law

good wife and mother (singular: accept if they/each is clear)

El 15 de junio de 1977, los españoles votaron en las primeras elecciones generales libres desde 1936. Mi abuela Carmen, que entonces tenía veintidós años, todavía recuerda aquel día con emoción. «Nunca había votado y estaba tan nerviosa que casi me equivoco de papeleta», cuenta riéndose. Sus padres, que habían vivido la guerra, temían que se repitiera la violencia de aquellos años.

Sin embargo, la jornada electoral transcurrió con total normalidad. Para muchos historiadores, aquellas elecciones fueron el primer paso hacia la Constitución, que sería aprobada al año siguiente. «Lo que sí cambió enseguida fue el ambiente: la gente se atrevía por fin a decir lo que pensaba», afirma.

On June 15th 1977, / On the 15th of June 1977,

On 15/6/1977

The 15 of June of 1977,

The 15th of June of 1977,

On 15 July 1977 / On 5 June

On 15 June 1997

the Spanish votes

the Spaniards vote

the Spanish have voted

the Spanish women voted

in the first free general election(s) since 1936

in the first free national elections since 1936

in the first general free elections

in the first elections general free

in the first free general elections from 1936

in the first free general elections for 1936

since 1963 / 1946

My grandmother / grandma / nan, Carmen, who was 22 (years old) then / at the time,

My grandmother Carmen, then aged twenty-two,

who then had twenty-two years

who had 22 years

who was twelve (wrong number)

My grandmother Carmen, who so had 22 years

My grandfather

still remembers / recalls that day fondly / vividly / with emotion / with excitement

is still moved when she remembers that day

still gets emotional remembering that day

still reminds that day

still records that day with emotion

still remembered that day (wrong tense)

remembers that day with emotion (loses todavía)

still remembers this day with emotion

“I had never voted before

“I’d never voted (before)

“I have never voted

“She had never voted (the quotation is in the first person)

“I never had voted

“I had never been voted

and I was so nervous / anxious / on edge

and was so nervous

and I was as nervous

and it was so nervous

and I am so nervous

and I was too nervous

that I almost / nearly took / used / chose / picked the wrong ballot paper / voting paper / ballot”,

that I almost made a mistake with my ballot paper”,

that I almost equivocate of paper

that I almost mistake the paper

that I’m almost wrong about the paper

that I nearly lost my ballot paper

that I made a mistake (loses casi)

she says / tells us / recalls, laughing / with a laugh / as she laughs

she laughs

counts laughing

she counts, laughing

she tells, laughing at herself (not reflexive in meaning)

he says laughing

telling laughed

Her parents, who had lived the war,

Her parents, who had lived in the war,

His parents (wrong gender)

Her relatives (padres = parents)

Her parents, who lived the war,

feared / were afraid / were scared / were worried that there would be a return of / there would be a repeat of / would happen again

feared that … would be repeated / would return / would repeat itself

timed that

tempted that

fear that it repeats

feared that it repeated

feared to repeat

the violence of those years / of that time / of that period

those years’ violence

the violence of these years

the violation of those years

the violence of those ages

Without embargo,

However, the electoral journey

However, the electoral day transcurred

However, the working day passed

However, the electoral journal

perfectly normally / calmly / peacefully / smoothly / without any problems / trouble

in a completely normal way

with total normality

with normality

with total normalcy

normally (loses total)

For many historians, those elections went the first step

For many historians, those elections were the first pass / passage

Many storytellers / history teachers

By many historians, those elections were

made the Constitution (hacia ≠ hacía)

into the Constitution

which will be approved the following year

which would be approved at the following year

which would be proved

which would pass the following year (exam)

which would be approved the year before

“What really / certainly / did change immediately / right away / at once was the atmosphere / the mood / the feeling in the air:

“The thing that did change straight away was the atmosphere:

“What yes changed immediately

“What changed immediately was the atmosphere (sí not shown; ER 2020)

“What changed then was the environment

“What had changed immediately

“What will change

the gent finally dared

people are finally daring

people at the end dared

people dared (loses por fin)

to say / to speak / to express what they thought / what they were thinking / what was on their minds / their minds”, she states / says / declares

to speak their minds”, she says

to say that which they thought

to say what he thought (gente is people: they)

to say what they think”

”, she confirms

”, he affirms