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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. Schools questions
    09:55
    Schools questions
  9. Themes of The Infinite
    01:29
    Themes of The Infinite
  10. Pets
    00:55
    Pets
  11. Twitch reading
    05:36
    Twitch reading
  12. One frame
    01:29
    One frame
  13. A question from Blake
    01:15
    A question from Blake
  14. The life of Matthew Henson
    08:12
    The life of Matthew Henson
  15. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  16. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  17. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
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