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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. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  9. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
  10. How Does Your Own Personal Experience Shape Your Writing?
    02:32
    How Does Your Own Personal Experience Shape Your Writing?
  11. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  12. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  13. A question from Blake
    01:15
    A question from Blake
  14. Meeting the Wolf Queen
    02:20
    Meeting the Wolf Queen
  15. Newton Farm Questions
    05:46
    Newton Farm Questions
  16. Questions from the audience
    05:40
    Questions from the audience
  17. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
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