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Hello! This is Jack from tofluency.com, and welcome to this english lesson where
we're going to look at the phrase:
How's it going? How's it going?
Now, this is a common question to ask people - people that you know when you see
them again.
So, for example, when I go to play football and I see my teammates they say
to me:
How's it going? How's it going? And this is a little bit more informal than 'how
are you?'
So, know that is used in informal settings, especially with people you already know.
Now, to answer this question keep it simple - keep it simple.
People aren't asking you for a long-winded answer - for a long answer here.
They don't really want to know everything about your life at this
situation. Answers that they expect are things like 'it's going good' or 'good,
thanks'
'pretty good'
'not too bad.' So, we keep the answer here
quite short when we're answering this question. Also a very common thing to do
here is to say: 'what about you?' or just simply 'you?' at the end of answering this
question. So, you might say:
'good, you? or 'good,
what about you?' So, this is just a very simple way to start a conversation.
Usually when we meet someone for the first time we keep our answers short at
the beginning and then we start to elaborate and expand on our answers
later when we get into a conversation about something specific.
So, for example, a conversation might go like this:
'Hey, how's it going?' 'Hood thanks, you?'
'Not too bad.' 'Good.' So, it's very,
you know, it's very short with these short answers, but then you start to expand and
talk a little bit more about your life at this stage.
Be sure to look at the description for the written answers so that you can read
these answers and memorize them.
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