UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level
3248/01
SECOND LANGUAGE URDU
Paper 1 Composition and Translation
October/November 2009
2 hours
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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
recommended length.
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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
advantage to keep to the recommended length.
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Part 3: Translation
Translate the following passage into Urdu.
More than ten thousand people attended a charity concert in London to raise money for war-torn
Darfur. The show on Sunday at Wembley Arena was intended to highlight the crisis in the Sudanese
region and featured some of the Muslim world's biggest stars.
Among them was Sami Yusuf – sometimes called the Islamic Bono – and Texan country and western
singer Kareem Salama. Jehangir Malik said the event was the biggest show put on by and for British
Muslims, although people of many different faiths attended and enjoyed themselves.
“We felt this was an important event for the British Muslim community to be able to raise their voices
and say, “Look, we need to do something about Darfur.” It was a challenge for us because people are
so busy getting on with their daily lives. We are very lucky to live in comfort and need to do considerably
more to help the poor in other countries.”
Mr Malik said British Muslims had already raised £2 million for Darfur and he hoped the concert would
generate another million pounds. The concert coincided with the end of Ramadan and the celebrations
associated with Eid.
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