How's it Going? | Learn English Phrases | Small Talk

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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