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Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
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James tells us why he thinks there’s such enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic in schools.
  1. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  2. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  3. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  5. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  6. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  7. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  8. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  9. The World of the Wolf Queen
    04:14
    The World of the Wolf Queen
  10. Introducing Wain
    00:21
    Introducing Wain
  11. Steven Lenton's illustrations
    00:35
    Steven Lenton's illustrations
  12. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  13. More Cookie Books
    01:04
    More Cookie Books
  14. The life of Matthew Henson
    08:12
    The life of Matthew Henson
  15. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  16. Sue's presentation
    11:34
    Sue's presentation
  17. Weather and climate
    00:56
    Weather and climate
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