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Simple Stories in Spanish

Roscoe Turner y el león volador

Simple Stories in Spanish

Small Town Spanish Teacher

Education, Spanish, Language Learning, Stories, Fiction, Practice, Arts, Listening, Learning, Language

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC has a lot to see. Tucked among the aircraft there is a display case with a lion. That lion is Gilmore. Gilmore, the flying lion (o león volador) flew more than 25,000 miles, including trips that broke speed records, with his owner Colonel Roscoe Turner, a daredevil pilot and aviation activist. This story is in the third person and past tense. Important vocabulary in the story includes: “avión” (plane), “pasajero” (passenger), “carrera...

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0:00.0

Hola and bienveninos at this episode of simple stories in Spanish.

0:06.1

The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. has a lot to see.

0:13.5

Tucked among the aircraft, there is a display case with a lion.

0:20.8

That lion is Gilmore. Gilmore, the flying lion, or Leon

0:28.0

Volador, flew more than 25,000 miles, including trips that broke speed records, with his owner, Colonel Roscoe Turner, a daredevil

0:43.6

pilot and aviation activist. This story is in the third person and past tense. Important vocabulary

0:53.3

in the story includes

0:55.4

Avion, plane, passenger, carrera, race, volar to fly, deleter to delight,

1:10.5

seguer to continue or follow, and

1:14.6

hasta, until.

1:17.4

I hope you enjoy Roscoe Turner and El Leone Volador.

1:24.7

Roscoe Turner

1:25.8

Nacio de September of 1890, Roscoe Turner Nassio 19th of September

1:28.7

of 1895

1:31.9

in the state of

1:34.2

Mississippi.

1:35.9

No,

1:36.3

I'd want to

1:37.1

be a granjero

1:38.5

as his father

1:39.8

and when

1:41.2

he was

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