Free-Time Activities: Music, Food and Sport
Talk about free time in Urdu. Learn the words for music, food and sport, like a song, a meal and swimming, each shown in the Urdu script read right to left.
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Free time in Urdu
This module builds your Urdu vocabulary for free time: music, food and sport, like a song, a meal and swimming. Remember that Urdu is written in the Arabic script and read from right to left. A full sentence looks like this: مجھے موسیقی پسند ہے, meaning I like music. Meet each word paired with its English meaning, then practise until you know them.
Words for sport
Start with four words about sport. Each Urdu word is shown with its English meaning.
Sport, food or music?
It helps to sort the words into sport, and food and music.
Match each sport word
- کھیل
- تیراکی
- تاش کھیلنا
- کھلاڑی
- Sport
- Swimming
- To play cards
- A player or athlete
The Urdu word for swimming
Which Urdu word means swimming?
- تیراکی
- کھیل
- تاش کھیلنا
- کھلاڑی
More to enjoy
There is more to free time than sport. کھانا is something you sit down to eat, and بریانی is a rich rice dish that many people love. موسیقی fills a room with sound, and a گیت is something you sing along to.
Match each food and music word
- کھانا
- بریانی
- موسیقی
- گیت
- A meal
- A savoury rice dish
- Music
- A song
Which two are foods?
Select the TWO words that are foods you eat.
- کھانا
- بریانی
- موسیقی
- تیراکی
Plan an evening out
Put these steps of an evening out in order.
- Choose a programme: پروگرام
- Eat a meal: کھانا
- Play cards: تاش کھیلنا
Fill each gap with a word
Music is _____. A song is _____. Sport is _____. Swimming is _____. A meal is _____.
Free-time words in Urdu
Tap the TWO statements that are TRUE.
- موسیقی means music.
- کھیل means sport.
- تیراکی means a meal.
- بریانی means swimming.
What do you choose?
For each situation, choose the correct Urdu word.
- You want to go swimming. Which word?
- You are hungry and want to eat. Which word?
- You want to listen to a song. Which word?
Your turn: write in Urdu
Write the Urdu for two things you enjoy and two foods you like, then use the pattern below. Write in Urdu script, right to left, because this module teaches the script itself, so that is what counts.
- Name two things you enjoy, such as music or sport
- Name two foods you like, such as a meal or biryani
- Write a whole Urdu sentence that means I like music, like the one in the introduction
- Try one more, for example a sentence that means I play cards