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07-01-2008, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by loveskyliemole View Post
What about this situation?

In a classroom, you are a teacher.
You asked the students to work on a workbook.
The classroom is quiet.
You just go circulating the room to see how they go.
Then you might say
"How are you going?" to a student who looks like having a
difficult time to do that workbook?
As it has been said, I don't think this wording would fit. A more appropriate sentences would be "How is it going?" (How's it going?) or "How's it coming along?".

Others could be:

例文:
"Everything going/(coming along) okay?"
"Need some help?"
"(Got) Any questions?"

In a nutshell, the phrase "How are you going" isn't used in Canada, except when asking about a method of transportation. However, "How's it going" is quite frequently used, just in a different context.
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