Global Issues: Environment and Poverty
Talk about global issues in Urdu. Learn the words for the environment and for poverty, like rubbish, air pollution and homeless, each shown in the Urdu script read right to left.
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Global issues in Urdu
This module builds your Urdu vocabulary for global issues: looking after the environment, and understanding poverty in society. Remember that Urdu is written in the Arabic script and read from right to left. A full sentence looks like this: میں کوڑا نہیں پھینکتا, meaning I do not throw rubbish. Meet each word paired with its English meaning, then practise until you know them.
Words for the environment
Start with four words about the environment. Each Urdu word is shown with its English meaning.
Environment, or society?
It helps to sort the words into the environment, and people and society.
Match each environment word
- کوڑا کرکٹ
- کوڑے کا ڈبہ
- ردّی کاغذ
- گندگی
- Rubbish
- A rubbish bin
- Waste paper
- Air pollution
The Urdu word for air pollution
Which Urdu word means air pollution?
- گندگی
- کوڑا کرکٹ
- کوڑے کا ڈبہ
- ردّی کاغذ
People and society
Global issues affect people too. Someone who is غریب has very little money, and being بے روزگار means being without a job. A بھکاری has to ask others for help, and someone who is بے گھر has nowhere to live.
Match each society word
- غریب
- بے روزگار
- بھکاری
- بے گھر
- Poor
- Unemployed
- A beggar
- Homeless
Which two are about the environment?
Select the TWO words that are about the environment.
- کوڑا کرکٹ
- گندگی
- غریب
- بے روزگار
Look after the environment
Put these steps of looking after the environment in order.
- Spot the rubbish: کوڑا کرکٹ
- Use the rubbish bin: کوڑے کا ڈبہ
- Recycle waste paper: ردّی کاغذ
Fill each gap with a word
Rubbish is _____. A rubbish bin is _____. Air pollution is _____. Someone poor is _____. Someone with no home is _____.
Global-issue words in Urdu
Tap the TWO statements that are TRUE.
- کوڑا کرکٹ means rubbish.
- غریب means poor.
- گندگی means a beggar.
- بے گھر means a rubbish bin.
What do you choose?
For each situation, choose the correct Urdu word.
- You want to throw away rubbish tidily. What do you use?
- A campaign is about people with no home. Which word?
- A report is about people without a job. Which word?
Your turn: write in Urdu
Write the Urdu for two ways to look after the environment and one social issue that matters to you, 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 ways to look after the environment
- Name one social issue that matters to you
- Write a whole Urdu sentence about not throwing rubbish, like the one in the introduction
- Try one more, for example a sentence that means I help others