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The 6-7 Generation: A Teacher's Report from the...
Teenagers on TikTok say older people are clueless because they didn't grow up with AI. Meanwhile, I spent four hours teaching ten-year-olds four phrases on a clock. A sarcastic report...
The 6-7 Generation: A Teacher's Report from the...
Teenagers on TikTok say older people are clueless because they didn't grow up with AI. Meanwhile, I spent four hours teaching ten-year-olds four phrases on a clock. A sarcastic report...
Adult English, Advanced: A Sample Class Recap
What an advanced adult student receives after a lesson: their own sentences improved, softening and tone for meetings, idioms, word stress, a podcast to listen to and a practice page,...
Adult English, Advanced: A Sample Class Recap
What an advanced adult student receives after a lesson: their own sentences improved, softening and tone for meetings, idioms, word stress, a podcast to listen to and a practice page,...
Children's English, Advanced: A Sample Class Recap
What a parent receives after an English lesson for a nine-to-twelve-year-old: a recap in English and their own language, a story with a real question in it, opinions, a writing...
Children's English, Advanced: A Sample Class Recap
What a parent receives after an English lesson for a nine-to-twelve-year-old: a recap in English and their own language, a story with a real question in it, opinions, a writing...
Children's English, Intermediate: A Sample Clas...
What a parent receives after an English lesson for a seven-to-ten-year-old: a recap in English and their own language, the story read aloud by Ross, and a practice page for...
Children's English, Intermediate: A Sample Clas...
What a parent receives after an English lesson for a seven-to-ten-year-old: a recap in English and their own language, the story read aloud by Ross, and a practice page for...
Adult English, Beginner: A Sample Class Recap
What an adult beginner receives after an English lesson: a recap in English and their own language, gentle corrections, sound, videos, and a practice page. A sample for a 52-year-old...
Adult English, Beginner: A Sample Class Recap
What an adult beginner receives after an English lesson: a recap in English and their own language, gentle corrections, sound, videos, and a practice page. A sample for a 52-year-old...
Children's English, Beginner: A Sample Class Recap
What a parent receives after a children's English lesson: a recap in English and their own language, videos, a story, and a practice page to play with. A sample for...
Children's English, Beginner: A Sample Class Recap
What a parent receives after a children's English lesson: a recap in English and their own language, videos, a story, and a practice page to play with. A sample for...
Make a Pot of Chili in Cambodia. See How Fucked...
An ordinary pot of chili becomes an outrageous evening in Phnom Penh: unsuccessful supermarket visits including Lucky Olympic Mall, no ground beef or cumin, imported cheeses, the French connection, a...
Make a Pot of Chili in Cambodia. See How Fucked...
An ordinary pot of chili becomes an outrageous evening in Phnom Penh: unsuccessful supermarket visits including Lucky Olympic Mall, no ground beef or cumin, imported cheeses, the French connection, a...
Beyond the Lesson: What Every rosscline.com Stu...
Most online English lessons end when the video call ends. Mine don’t. Meet Yuting — a made-up student — and see the four things every rosscline.com student gets: a free...
Beyond the Lesson: What Every rosscline.com Stu...
Most online English lessons end when the video call ends. Mine don’t. Meet Yuting — a made-up student — and see the four things every rosscline.com student gets: a free...
Six Times the History Books Were Wrong (And Wha...
A temple older than farming. A geared computer from 100 BC. A city bigger than London in the American Midwest. Six times the official story of the past turned out...
Six Times the History Books Were Wrong (And Wha...
A temple older than farming. A geared computer from 100 BC. A city bigger than London in the American Midwest. Six times the official story of the past turned out...
The Science Delusion: What Happens When Science...
In 2013, TED removed a talk from its channel. The speaker was a Cambridge-trained biologist and former Research Fellow of the Royal Society. What he said was uncomfortable enough that...
The Science Delusion: What Happens When Science...
In 2013, TED removed a talk from its channel. The speaker was a Cambridge-trained biologist and former Research Fellow of the Royal Society. What he said was uncomfortable enough that...
Believable or Not? The Magus of Java, and the H...
In 1988 a BBC crew filmed a healer in Java setting paper alight with his hand, driving a chopstick through a table, and shocking people with a touch. Then he...
Believable or Not? The Magus of Java, and the H...
In 1988 a BBC crew filmed a healer in Java setting paper alight with his hand, driving a chopstick through a table, and shocking people with a touch. Then he...
What Dogs Know: Cancer at One Part Per Trillion...
A dog can smell a cancer that nobody has diagnosed yet — roughly one part per trillion, a tenth of a drop in two swimming pools. That part is in...
What Dogs Know: Cancer at One Part Per Trillion...
A dog can smell a cancer that nobody has diagnosed yet — roughly one part per trillion, a tenth of a drop in two swimming pools. That part is in...
The Greatest Story Never Told? The Old World, M...
What if some of the magnificent cities photographed in the 1800s were not entirely built by the people we see standing in front of them? From the Crystal Palace and...
The Greatest Story Never Told? The Old World, M...
What if some of the magnificent cities photographed in the 1800s were not entirely built by the people we see standing in front of them? From the Crystal Palace and...
The Village That Fed Me
A tuk-tuk driver took me to his village in Svay Rieng. There was a dirt floor, a borrowed bed with chickens under it, a frog boiled over a fire —...
The Village That Fed Me
A tuk-tuk driver took me to his village in Svay Rieng. There was a dirt floor, a borrowed bed with chickens under it, a frog boiled over a fire —...
Screened Out at Home
New Brunswick runs a government hiring programme for people not born in New Brunswick. It runs a documented pathway into the classroom for Red Seal tradespeople. I was born there,...
Screened Out at Home
New Brunswick runs a government hiring programme for people not born in New Brunswick. It runs a documented pathway into the classroom for Red Seal tradespeople. I was born there,...
The Quiet Genius of Mister Rogers
A teacher's love letter to Fred Rogers — and a practical guide for parents and educators. Behind the cardigan was a rigorous mind: the child psychology of Margaret McFarland, the...
The Quiet Genius of Mister Rogers
A teacher's love letter to Fred Rogers — and a practical guide for parents and educators. Behind the cardigan was a rigorous mind: the child psychology of Margaret McFarland, the...
Snail and the Slow, Slow Trail
A soft-hearted little snail is always last... until a rainy day proves that going slow is exactly how she sees — and saves — what everyone else raced past. An...
Snail and the Slow, Slow Trail
A soft-hearted little snail is always last... until a rainy day proves that going slow is exactly how she sees — and saves — what everyone else raced past. An...
Bat, Not Ba: A Story About Finishing Your Words
Deep in the forest lives a little bat named Bat. But nobody everhears the end of her name — everyone just says "Ba"! A kind oldBeaver helps her learn to...
Bat, Not Ba: A Story About Finishing Your Words
Deep in the forest lives a little bat named Bat. But nobody everhears the end of her name — everyone just says "Ba"! A kind oldBeaver helps her learn to...
The Fox Wizard
Beyond the Blue Mountains, beside the Whispering River, a hardworking Beaver builds a home and helps young animals learn to read. Then a charming Fox in starry robes knocks at...
The Fox Wizard
Beyond the Blue Mountains, beside the Whispering River, a hardworking Beaver builds a home and helps young animals learn to read. Then a charming Fox in starry robes knocks at...
I Agree — And What Those Two Words Actually Cos...
There is a drone you can buy that flies better than anything else in the sky. It is not popular because people are foolish. It is popular because it is the...
I Agree — And What Those Two Words Actually Cos...
There is a drone you can buy that flies better than anything else in the sky. It is not popular because people are foolish. It is popular because it is the...
Your Eyes Can Change What You Hear
Watch a short video with your eyes closed, then watch it again with your eyes open. The audio never changes, but the sound you hear does. This is the McGurk...
Your Eyes Can Change What You Hear
Watch a short video with your eyes closed, then watch it again with your eyes open. The audio never changes, but the sound you hear does. This is the McGurk...
It's Not Illegal Yet — A Free English Lesson on...
One in five Canadians works for the government. So who writes the unflattering story about the boss? Read the essay, then build your English with two free lessons — vocabulary,...
It's Not Illegal Yet — A Free English Lesson on...
One in five Canadians works for the government. So who writes the unflattering story about the boss? Read the essay, then build your English with two free lessons — vocabulary,...
The Door Painted on the Wall
A teacher comes home to a province that swears it needs teachers — and finds the handle won't turn. My account of 400+ applications, a year and a half called...
The Door Painted on the Wall
A teacher comes home to a province that swears it needs teachers — and finds the handle won't turn. My account of 400+ applications, a year and a half called...
Taiwan and the ICCPR: A Warning for Foreign Inv...
Taiwan and the ICCPR: A Warning for Foreign Investors Ross Cline argues that Taiwan’s justice system, ICCPR commitments, and investment environment deserve urgent scrutiny. This post includes a personal statement,...
Taiwan and the ICCPR: A Warning for Foreign Inv...
Taiwan and the ICCPR: A Warning for Foreign Investors Ross Cline argues that Taiwan’s justice system, ICCPR commitments, and investment environment deserve urgent scrutiny. This post includes a personal statement,...
