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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. Gil's bug hospital
    05:28
    Gil's bug hospital
  9. Wordplay
    14:05
    Wordplay
  10. UK schools vs American schools
    02:13
    UK schools vs American schools
  11. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  12. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  13. A question from Blake
    01:15
    A question from Blake
  14. Poetry is everywhere
    14:55
    Poetry is everywhere
  15. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  16. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  17. Questions from schools
    05:40
    Questions from schools
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