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Flights of fancy

Flights of fancy

Aug 26, 2026

identity

⋮⋮ Program

  • 12.05 Warm-up discussion
  • 12.10 Reading The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap
  • 12.50 Break
  • 13.05 Analysis
    • Comprehension questions
    • Interpretation questions
  • 13.45 Break
  • 14.00 Grammatik: Modalverber
  • 14.45 Paragraph of the week

Warm-up discussion

  • What’s the difference between an inner life and our private identity?
  • Do you ever imagine a different version of your life?
  • Do you daydream? About what?
  • Do you sometimes dream of escaping your daily life?

Readin The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap

  • Read one paragraph at a time in groups. Each groupmember has one of the below roles for each paragraph
    • Reading master
    • Summary master
    • Title master
    • Dictionary master
  • You can switch roles each paragraph if you like

Comprehension questions

  1. What is Mr. Thomas Shap’s job?
  2. How does he feel about his ordinary life and work?
  3. What does he begin to imagine during his daily routine?
  4. What is the name of the city he creates in his fantasy world?
  5. Why does Mr. Shap decide that he is the king of Larkar?
  6. How does his imagined world grow over time?
  7. How does his fantasy life begin to affect his real life?
  8. What important mistake does he make because of his dreams?
  9. Why do other people begin to worry about him?
  10. What does Mr. Shap plan at the end of his fantasy world?
  11. Where is he really when the coronation takes place?
  12. Who are the “warders,” and what do they tell him to do?

Interpretation questions

  1. Why does Mr. Shap create Larkar?
  2. Can fantasy become dangerous?
  3. Is the ending mostly sad, ironic, or both? Why?
  4. Is Mr. Shap a tragic hero or a foolish madman?
  5. Is there a message to this story? A critique?

Grammatik: Modalverber

Modalverber er en undergruppe af hjælpeverber. På engelsk findes følgende fem modalverber. Hvert modalverbum har kun to forskellige former:

canshallwillmaymust
Præsenscanshallwillmaymust
Præteritumcouldshouldwouldmightmust

Modalverbet er altid sat sammen med et verbum i infinitiv uden to.

Eksempel

  • Emma can sing quite beautifully.
  • Peter realized that he could win the race.

Paragraph of the week

Walter

Characterisation

  • Walter’s fear controls his life so completely that he chooses isolation instead of freedom.

Theme

  • Walter’s vignette shows that trying to escape trauma can trap a person even more deeply.

Setting

  • The dark, repetitive bunker setting ties together the concepts of fear and loneliness.

The Coronation fo Mr. Thomas Shap

Characterisation

  • Through his growing contempt for ordinary life, Mr. Shap is characterised as a man who would rather invent importance than accept his own powerlessness.

Language

  • The story uses elevated and vivid language to make Mr. Shap’s fantasy world seem grand, beautiful, and seductive.

Theme/message

  • The story presents fantasy not as harmless escape, but as a destructive withdrawal from reality.

Materials

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