🖋️ Horizon: Reading — The Profile Piece
A reading-skills expedition into clause-dense text. The crew untangles a 250-word magazine profile of storm photographer Leyla Aran: bracketing embedded clauses, matching every verb to its true subject, decoding whose and comma-pair traps, and understanding which pointing at a whole idea. Learners finish by imitating the style — one packed profile sentence about a person they admire.
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Lesson Plan
- Where you meet profiles
- Who lives in Oslo? — a parsing puzzle
- Your strategy for long sentences
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- A relative clause between subject and verb never changes the frame: The coach who trained the twins lives in Oslo → the coach lives
- whose marks possession inside a clause: the writer whose novel became a film — the novel belongs to the writer
- Non-defining clauses sit between two commas, add removable extra information, and never use that
- After a comma, which can refer to a whole previous idea: She said no, which surprised everyone
