New Activity
Play Fill in the Blanks Game
Read the following short story and identify the past , present , future , simple and progressive tenses used . Each tense is used once .

John ____________________ always ____________________ ( travel ) a lot . In fact , when he was only two years old when he first ____________________ ( fly ) to the US . His mother is Italian and his father is American . John was born in France , but his parents ____________________ ____________________ ( meet ) in Cologne , Germany after they ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ( live ) there for five years . They met one day while John's father ____________________ ____________________ ( read ) a book in the library and his mother sat down beside him .

John ____________________ ____________________ ( visit ) his parents in France at the moment . He ____________________ ( live ) in New York now , but ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ( visit ) his parents for the past few weeks .

This year he has flown over 50 , 000 miles for his job . He has been working for Jackson and Co . for almost two years now . He's pretty sure that he ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ( work ) for them next year as well . His job requires a lot of travel . In fact , by the end of this year , he ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ( travel ) over 120 , 000 miles ! His next journey ____________________ ____________________ ( be ) to Australia . He really doesn't like going to Australia because it is so far . This time he is going to fly from Paris after a meeting with the company's French partner . He ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ( sit ) for over 18 hours by the time he arrives !