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Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
The red and blue teams face some tough questions.
  1. Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
    06:44
    Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
  2. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
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    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  3. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
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    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  5. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  6. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  7. Discovering New Words
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    Discovering New Words
  8. Favourite Scots Words
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    Favourite Scots Words
  9. The poetry community
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    The poetry community
  10. How to Train Your Dragon reading
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    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  11. Questions from schools
    05:58
    Questions from schools
  12. Alastair’s influences
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    Alastair’s influences
  13. Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
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    Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
  14. Room on the Broom in Scots
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    Room on the Broom in Scots
  15. Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
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    Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
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    The Great Storm Whale reading
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    Dogs in space
  18. Questions from schools
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    Questions from schools
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