The document discusses the Amish communities in America, their historical roots, and their unique lifestyle that has remained largely unchanged since the 18th century. It highlights that the Amish are law-abiding citizens who have preserved their traditions while also adapting to some modern practices, such as the use of renewable energy. The text emphasizes the low rate of young Amish leaving their community and presents their way of life as both strict and appealing compared to the pressures of modern American society.

1. PRESENTED BY
NESTOR FERNANDO ORBES MORIANO
JENNY VIVIANA ULABARRY
DONEY TORRES
DANILO AMAYA
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TUTOR
CAMILO ARTURO CENDALES
UNAD OPEN AND DISTANCE UNIVERSITY
B.A IN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
JULY, 2017
ACTIVITY GUIDE AND EVALUATION RUBRICS
UNIT 1: COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY 1
COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY
TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES

2. TASK 1
TRANSLATION TEXT
AMERICA'S AMISH; MODEL
SOCIETY?
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3. NESTOR FERNANDO ORBES MORIANO
AMERICA'S AMISH; MODEL SOCIETY?
PARAGRAPH 1
America's Amish communities live a lifestyle that has changed little since the 18th century; but in other
respects, they are showing other Americans the way forward into the twenty-first....the roadsign is, to say the
least, unexpected ; driving through a prosperous rural part of north America, the last thing you expect to see
beside the highway is a yellow diamond roadsign with a horse and buggy in the middle! watch out for horses
and buggies on the road? what is this? do they exercise racehorses here, or what?
you keep an eye open for horses; for two miles you see nothing, then all of a sudden, look! coming
towards you on the other side of the road, two black horse-drawn buggies! as they go by, your surprise turns
to disbelief; what's going on? are they making a movie about eighteenth century America? the men and the
women in the buggy look like they jumped out of a novel by Fennimore cooper. then, another mile and things
get even stranger; beside a neat-looking farm-house, there is a whole line of buggies. In the door of the
house, half a dozen men in black coats, and with long beards, are talking while some women dressed in a
curiously ancient fashion are sitting on a bench. is This 2015 or 1715?

4. TRANSLATION
LOS AMISH DE AMÈRICA, SOCIEDAD MODELO
Las comunidades Amish de américa viven un estilo de vida que poco ha cambiado desde el siglo XVIII; pero
en otros aspectos están mostrando a otros estadounidenses la forma de seguir adelante en el vigésimo
primer….
La señal de tráfico es, por decir al menos, inesperada, al conducir a través de una parte rural prospera de
norte américa, lo último que esperas ver al lado del camino es una señal de tránsito en forma de rombo
amarilla con un caballo y un carruaje en el medio. ¿cuidado con los carruajes y los caballos en el camino?
¿qué es esto? ¿ejercitan caballos de carreras aquí, o qué?
Presta atención a los caballos; no ves nada en dos millas, luego de repente, ¡mira! ¡del otro lado del camino
vienen hacia ti dos carruajes negros! mientras pasan; tu sorpresa se convierte en incredulidad; ¿qué está
pasando? ¿están haciendo una película sobre la américa del siglo xviii? los hombres y las mujeres en la
carreta parecen saltar de una novela de Fennimore Cooper. luego de una milla, las cosas se vuelven aún
más extrañas, junto a una casa de campo de aspecto elegante, hay toda una línea de carretas. en la puerta
de la casa, media docena de hombres de abrigos negros y de barbas largas están hablando mientras
algunas mujeres vestidas de una manera curiosamente antigua están sentadas en un banco. ¿es éste el año
2015 o 1715?

5. JENNY VIVIANA ULABARRY MEDINA
PARAGRAPH 2
You drive on, wondering what has happened to this part of the united states of America? have you driven
into a time-warp, and without realizing it, gone back 300 years, or is it the people you've just seen who're
stuck in a time warp?
A quick enquiry at the nearest gas station gives you the answer; you are in Amish country, and the men
and women you have just seen are Amish, part of a strange religious group that settled in America in the
18th century, and much of whose lifestyle has changed little since then.
If you had seen the movie “Witness", you would have already known something about the Amish, how
their community is strictly religious and self-contained, how Amish people do without the essentials of
modern-day life such as electricity and cars, and how they do not mix with people outside of their own
community. It is virtually unheard of for anyone to become an Amish, who was not born an Amish.
This is about all that most Americans know about Amish people, unless, that is, they actually live near them
and come across them in daily life. So who are they?

6. TRANSLATION
Te sigues preguntando ¿qué ha pasado en esta parte de los estados unidos de américa? has entrado a un
túnel de tiempo, y sin saberlo regresas 300 años, o es la persona que has visto quien está atrapada en un
túnel del tiempo.
Una rápida indagación en la estación más cercana de gas da tu respuesta; usted está en el país de los
Amish, y los hombres y mujeres que han visto son Amish, parte de un extraño grupo religioso que se asentó
en América en el siglo XVIII y gran parte de su estilo de vida ha cambiado un poco desde entonces.
Si has visto la película “Testigo”, ya sabrías algo acerca de los Amish, como su comunidad es estrictamente
religiosa e independiente, como las personas Amish hacen sin las cosas esenciales de la vida moderna
como la electricidad y los carros, y cómo ellos no se mezclan con las personas externas a su propia
comunidad. Es prácticamente inaudito para alguien volverse un Amish, quien no ha nacido un Amish.
Esto es todo lo que la mayoría de americanos saben acerca de las personas Amish, a no ser que
actualmente vivan cerca de ellos y se crucen en la vida diaria. Entonces, ¿quiénes son?

7. DONEY TORRES MARTÌNEZ
PARAGRAPH 3
In brief, the Amish are members of an ultra-protestant religious movement that first came to
America from the upper Rhine valley over three hundred years ago, and have kept their traditions
and lifestyles. They are very law-abiding citizens, and their community is one in which crime is
almost, though not entirely, inexistent; Amish families live strict lives, following the same code of
morals as their ancestors. in a sense, they are indeed stuck in a time warp.
Yet the most remarkable things to note about the Amish are not their quaint lifestyles and their
home-made clothes, but the expansion of their community, its efficiency, its social cohesion, and
their recent adoption of "green" technology, including wind-power and solar energy. Although they
work the land using traditional horse-drawn machines, and use no chemical fertilizers, their
agriculture is - interestingly - among the most productive in north America!

8. TRANSLATION
En forma breve, los Amish son miembros de un movimiento religioso ultra-protestante que
primero vino a América desde el valle superior del rin hace más de trescientos años, y ha
conservado sus tradiciones y estilos de vida. ellos son ciudadanos muy respetuosos con la ley y
su comunidad es una en la cual el crimen es casi inexistente, aunque no completamente; las
familias Amish viven estrictas vidas, siguiendo el mismo código de moral de sus antepasados. De
hecho, están en cierto sentido atrapados en un túnel del tiempo.
Sin embargo, lo más notable de resaltar acerca de los Amish no son sus pintorescos estilos de
vida y sus ropas caseras, sino la expansión de su comunidad, su eficiencia, su cohesión social y
su reciente adopción de tecnología verde, incluyendo energía eólica y solar. Aunque ellos
trabajan la tierra usando máquinas tradicionales de caballos y no usan fertilizantes químicos, su
agricultura está curiosamente dentro de las más productivas de Norte América.

9. DANILO AMAYA ACEVEDO
PARAGRAPH 5
The fact that only about 18% of young Amish abandon the austere way of life of their ancestors is not the only reason why the
community is growing so fast. Other factors include increasing life-expectancy, and higher standards of living.
As for machines and modernity, Amish families do not live a primitive life; while they reject the use of mains electricity in the
home, they accept the use of kerosene and efficient wood-burning stoves that provide plenty of light and heat and comfort in their
homes; and they are certainly not out of touch with technology. It was estimated that in 2007, 80% of homes in some Amish
communities were using wind or solar power! in this respect, far from being stuck in the past, they can be considered as one of
the most advanced communities in the world!
As for leisure, it is not one of their major preoccupations! while they do not have televisions or radios, they have other social
activities; yet Amish leaders actually fear that the development of a cult of leisure could rapidly destroy their society.
Contrary to popular belief, the Amish are not cut off from the rest of America; like any farmers, they need markets for their
products and suppliers for their goods; some work for non-Amish employers. Many have non-Amish neighbors. They know what
is going on in the rest of the united states, and like many other Americans, they are alarmed by many modern developments.
This too explains why most young Amish opt to carry on with the hard-working and strict way of life of their community. Though
Amish life is hard in many ways, it is free of most of the pressures and problems of the rest of American society. as long as this
lifestyle is not forced into radical change, many of those who have been brought up in it will continue to see it as an attractive
option.

10. TRANSLATION
El hecho de que solo alrededor del 18% de los jóvenes Amish abandonan el austero camino de vida de sus ancestros no es la
única razón del porque la comunidad está creciendo tan rápido. Otros factores incluyen el incremento de la esperanza de vida y
estándares de vida más altos.
En cuanto a las máquinas y la modernidad, las familias Amish no viven una vida primitiva; mientras ellos rechazan el uso de
electricidad principal en casa, ellos aceptan el uso de keroseno y eficientes estufas de leña que proveen suficiente luz, calor y
comodidad en sus casas; ellos ciertamente no están al corriente con la tecnología. Fue estimado que en el 2017, 80% de casas
en algunas comunidades Amish estuvieron usando viento y energía solar. En este sentido, de estar estancados en el pasado,
pueden ser considerados como una de las comunidades más avanzadas en el mundo.
En cuanto al tiempo libre, no es una de sus mayores preocupaciones. mientras no tienen televisión o radios, ellos tienen otras
actividades sociales; aunque los lideres Amish temen que el desarrollo de una cultura de ocio pueda rápidamente destruir su
comunidad.
Al contrario de la creencia popular, los Amish no están desconectados del resto de América; como cualquier granjero, ellos
necesitan mercados para sus productos y proveedores para sus mercancías; algunos trabajan para empleadores no Amish.
Muchos tienen vecinos que no son Amish. ellos saben que está pasando en el resto de los Estados Unidos, y como muchos
otros americanos, ellos son alarmados por muchos desarrollos modernos.
Esto también explica porque muchos jóvenes Amish optan por continuar con el trabajo duro y la estricta forma de vida de su
comunidad. aunque la vida Amish es difícil en muchas formas. está libre de la mayoría de presiones y problemas del resto de la
sociedad Americana. siempre y cuando su estilo de vida no sea forzado a un cambio radical, muchos de estos que han sido
educados de esta manera continuaran viéndola como una propuesta atractiva.

11. TASK 2
REFLECTION ABOUT
TASK 1
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12. NESTOR FERNANDO ORBES M
Although the text looks simple and easy to understand, there are some expressions difficult to
translate without losing the Main idea, due to the narrative style and the cultural elements it has; I
had difficulties with the idiomatic expressions such as “You keep an eye” “black horse-drawn
buggies” “jumped out of” “neat-looking farm-house” “As they go by”. So, it was important for me to
use some translation strategies such as Translating without interruptions, that is for as long as
possible and correcting surface errors, this strategy helped me to be focus on the text and to save
time at the last stage, I mean the revision stage.
As techniques, first I used the literal translation because it gave me an idea of the sense of the
whole text, it worked good because the text is not so long. On the other hand, for some
expressions like the mentioned above, was useful the oblique translation due to this expression
cannot be directly translated into the Spanish due to the sense of the meaning, so I had to
reformulate the statement but keeping the idea. For instance, “You keep an eye open- translated
as “presta atención a” not literally “mantener un ojo abierto”.

13. JENNY VIVIANA ULABARRY MEDINA
The translation of a different language to the own, it can be a little complicated if we don`t have in
mind some factors as the culture and own words of that language. Also it can influence the
vocabulary. If we don`t know sufficiently the vocabulary it`s possible that we lose time but we can
win more knowledge related to other words.
So, the problems that I had when I was translating my text were:
• Don`t know the meaning of some words
• Try to be coherent and contextualize the reading
The translate technique that I used was the Oblique Translation Techniques. According to Bosco
Gabriela “Oblique Translation Techniques are used when the structural or conceptual elements of
the source language cannot be directly translated without altering meaning or upsetting the
grammatical and stylistics elements of the target language”

14. DONEY TORRES MARTÌNEZ
When I translated the text, although I knew the majority of words, there were words I did not know, it
was one of the drawbacks I found because it becomes necessary to look for different sources to
understand the meaning of each word within of the text. In addition, the order of the words is not literal
as in Spanish language, it requires comprehension and interpretation of the intentionality of the writer
to translate it into the target language, for this case Spanish, so that it has textual coherence. Some
expressions were difficult to translate for me because they require more attention and analysis
according to the order within the sentence.
The technique I used in this text was Oblique Translation and of this "Transposition" because when
translating from English to Spanish, a literal translation cannot be kept word for word, because the
grammatical sense of the target language can be altered and it Changes the meaning of the sentence.
Another important technique to take into account in this text was the Adaptation, because some words
do not translate exactly the same as Spanish. These techniques are reflected for example in the
expression "In a sense, they are indeed stuck in a time warp" where it is not possible to translate word
by word and, in that order, it is necessary the correct interpretation of the two languages.

15. DANILO AMAYA ACEBEDO
I must say that throughout the development of this task I did not know some
expressions, basically due to their several meanings and most importantly
because of its sense within the context of Amish communities.
The support I applied to accomplish this activity was Oblique technique as I
need it as a source that allows me to find the real connection between the
words and the whole text.

16. TASK 3
CHART: DIFERENCE
BETWEEN METHOD,
STRATEGY AND
TECHNIQUE
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17. NESTOR FERNANDO ORBES
METHOD
Translation methods relate to
whole texts
A particular translation
process is carried out in terms
of the translator's objective
It Is a procedure for
sentences
STRATEGY
Translator's potentially conscious
plans for solving concrete
translation problems in the
framework of a concrete
translation task
Involve the basic tasks of
choosing the foreign text to
be translated and developing
a method to translate it
Open the way to finding a
suitable solution for a
translation unit
TECHNIQUE
It`s used for sentences and
the smaller units of language
Analysis of the source and
target languages
Affects the way micro-units of
the text are translated and
techniques affect the result

18. METHOD STRATEGY TECHNIQUE
It`s a way used to achieve a
task or accomplishes an
objective
It`s a thought up plan or
planned process to manage a
task
It`s a determinate procedure to carry
out a task
It`s helped by a thinking
system.
Its process is helped by the
techniques
These are only process to achieve the
strategy suggested it.
It refers to the strategies
and techniques
It refers to: What? It`s refers How?
Ex.
Word-for-word translation
Ex
Use of a standard translation.
Ex.
Oblique Translation Techniques
JENNY VIVIANA ULABARRY M

19. Method Strategy Technique
Definition
Is the level at which theory is put
into practice and at which choices
are made about the particular
skills to be taught, the content to
be taught, and the order in which
the content will be presented.
Potentially conscious
procedure for solving a
problem faced.
Is the level at which classroom
procedures are described.
Characteristics
_Is procedural.
_ is an overall plan for the orderly
presentation of language material.
_Is for solving concrete
problems in the
framework of a concrete
task.
_ Involve the basic tasks
to solving a problem and
developing a method to
do it.
_Are "heuristic and
flexible in nature.
_ it favors the acquisition,
storage, and/or utilization
of information
_is implementational.
_That which actually takes
place in a classroom. It is a
particular trick, stratagem, or
contrivance used to accomplish
an immediate objective.
_Must be consistent with a
method.
DONEY TORRES MARTÌNEZ

20. Method Strategy Technique
Definition
Methods relate to whole texts,
translation procedures are used
for sentences and the smaller
units of language"
Strategy as "a potentially
conscious procedure for
solving a problem faced
in translating a text, or
any segment of it."
It is the way you as a
translator prefer to give a text
the best technique to
overcome its difficulties.
Difference
It is developed for a long-term
translation project.
It is applied in order to
give solution to the
relevant information
within the text.
It like a nexus between the
method and the
accomplishment of success.
DANILO AMAYA ACEBEDO

21. TASK 4

22. To Jenny Viviana
From: Re: Task 3: Collaborative Activity 1 individual
activity word doc
de NESTOR FERNANDO ORBES - martes, 18 de
Julio de 2017, 17:18
Hello dear e-mate
this is my feedback to your job, at the beginning of
the paragraph the sentence " You drive on" should be
translated as " sigues conduciendo,
preguntandote........"
the whole part to have translated is well-done, you
put the right words and it makes a good sense .
Fernando Orbes
To Nestor Orbes
From: Re: Task 3: Collaborative Activity 1 individual
activity word doc
de DONEY TORRES - miércoles, 19 de Julio de 2017,
22:42
Dear Néstor, You job is very interesting, I identify with
you because it wasn´t easy to translate the paragraph
and it´s necessary a careful analysis. The unknow
expressions with some words with no apparent sense
was a difficult for me too. The translation is not an
easy task but with strategies and the correct technique
we will have excellent results.
Thanks
To Jenny Viviana
From:Re: Task 3: Collaborative Activity 1
de DONEY TORRES - jueves, 20 de julio de 2017, 22:04
Hi Viviana, The task is very complete, the reflection about the
importance of the vocabulary is real and I am in agree with you
because when we unknown some word isn´t easy the translation
because we lose time and our text can be no comprehensible for
readers.
Doney.

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• Bosco, G. (n.d.). Translation Techniques. Retrieved March 22, 2017,
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• Jack C. R., Theodore S. R., Chapter 2 - The nature of approaches and
methods in language teaching pp. 18-35, Cambridge books online. Available in:
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