Cambridge International Examinations

Cambridge Ordinary Level

* 3 7 7 8 6 3 0 5 0 3 *

SECOND LANGUAGE URDU 3248/01

Paper 1 Composition and Translation October/November 2017
2 hours
Candidates answer on the Question Paper.
No Additional Materials are required.

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Part 1: Directed Writing

Write an article in Urdu in response to the poster below. Your article should be about 150 words long.
You should include the points written below the poster. It will be to your advantage to keep to the
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Part 2: Letter, Report, Dialogue or Speech

From a choice of two questions, write one composition in Urdu of about 200 words. It will be to your
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Part 3: Translation

Translate the following passage into Urdu.

It is said that playing team sports brings people closer together. In most cases, they are very enjoyable
ways of not only keeping fit but of learning how to deal with life’s ups and downs. These lessons include
working together as a team and accepting winning and losing without getting too upset. But you must
remember that the main purpose of any sport is simply to have fun and spend time with your friends.

However, some people in the modern world we live in think that it is more important to win at all costs.
Team coaches can get their young teams to play too hard and sometimes this results in fights on the
pitch. One very experienced coach’s opinion is that this may be happening because sport is now seen
as a way out of poverty, and, quite naturally, young people will do almost anything to improve their own
and their families’ lives.
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