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How to Train Your Dragon reading
Cressida reads an extract from her most famous book
  1. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  2. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
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  3. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
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  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
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  5. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
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  6. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
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  7. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
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  8. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
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  9. Favourite book
    00:45
    Favourite book
  10. Bumble and Snug reading
    04:07
    Bumble and Snug reading
  11. Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
    03:40
    Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
  12. Joyful Poetry
    00:53
    Joyful Poetry
  13. Questions from schools
    07:40
    Questions from schools
  14. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  15. Why comics matter
    06:03
    Why comics matter
  16. Steven Lenton's illustrations
    00:35
    Steven Lenton's illustrations
  17. There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 2
    04:25
    There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 2
  18. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
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