Search For My Tongue iGCSE questions
This supportive resource is specifically designed for students studying the Edexcel iGCSE English Literature specification.
The questions guide students through the poem ‘Search For My Tongue’ by Sujata Bhatt, helping them to evaluate the speaker’s cultural identity, ideas around using their first language and having to adapt to a new language when the speaker moves to England.
The resource offers students detailed questions with frameworks so that they can explore the poem in detail and consider literary techniques, such as extended metaphor, enjambment and free verse.
Students are encouraged to investigate how it might feel to start a new life and learn a new language, while pushing a native language to the side. The questions enable students to explore concepts of identity and belonging.
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A sample extract from the resource:
- What do you think the title means? (Remember that there is more than one meaning for the word “tongue”.)
- I think that Sujata Bhatt has to search for her tongue because she .......................
- In the poem, the poet addresses someone as “you”. I think that she could be talking to ...................... She could also be addressing .................... Another possibility is that she is speaking to ........................ She is talking to them because .........…............
- What does she say about the problems of having two tongues? (More than one answer.)
- This is a problem for her because ..................….................................................
- What reasons does the poet give for having lost her mother tongue? (Two points.)
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