Social Issues: Charity and Healthy Living
Talk about social issues in Urdu. Learn the words for charity and healthy living, like a volunteer, to donate and exercise, each shown in the Urdu script read right to left.
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Social issues in Urdu
This module builds your Urdu vocabulary for social issues: giving to charity and helping others, and keeping healthy. Remember that Urdu is written in the Arabic script and read from right to left. A full sentence looks like this: مجھے ورزش پسند ہے, meaning I like exercise. Meet each word paired with its English meaning, then practise until you know them.
Words for charity
Start with four words about charity and helping. Each Urdu word is shown with its English meaning.
Charity, or health?
It helps to sort the words into charity and helping, and health.
Match each charity word
- والنٹیر
- چندہ دینا
- خیرات
- خیراتی کام
- A volunteer
- To donate
- Charity
- Charity work
The Urdu word for to donate
Which Urdu phrase means to donate?
- چندہ دینا
- والنٹیر
- خیرات
- خیراتی کام
Looking after your health
Looking after yourself matters too. صحت is how well your body is, and being صحت مند is being well. ورزش is keeping your body active, and if you feel بیمار a شفا خانہ is where a doctor treats you.
Match each health word
- صحت
- صحت مند
- ورزش
- شفا خانہ
- Health
- Healthy
- Exercise
- A hospital
Which two are about charity?
Select the TWO words that are about charity and helping.
- والنٹیر
- چندہ دینا
- صحت
- ورزش
Help a charity
Put these steps of helping a charity in order.
- Choose a charity: خیرات
- Give money: چندہ دینا
- Give your time: والنٹیر
Fill each gap with a word
A volunteer is _____. Charity is _____. Health is _____. Healthy is _____. Exercise is _____.
Social-issue words in Urdu
Tap the TWO statements that are TRUE.
- والنٹیر means a volunteer.
- صحت means health.
- ورزش means charity.
- خیرات means a hospital.
What do you choose?
For each situation, choose the correct Urdu word.
- You give money to a good cause. Which word?
- You feel unwell and need a doctor. Where do you go?
- You want to keep your body active. What do you do?
Your turn: write in Urdu
Write the Urdu for two ways to help a charity and two things that keep you healthy, 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 people help a charity
- Name two things that keep you healthy
- Write a whole Urdu sentence that means I like exercise, like the one in the introduction
- Try one more, for example a sentence that means I help others