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Hey everyone, I'm Alicia. In this series, we're going to learn some easy ways to ask and answer common questions

in English.

It's really useful and it only takes three minutes.

In this lesson, you're going to learn how to ask what someone's job is in natural English. Of course, you can just say, what is your job?

This is correct English, but it sounds too direct and awkward.

Native English speakers almost never say this in a social situation.

Instead, they use a different question.

But before we master that, we need to compare it to a very similar question.

What are you doing?

I'm presenting a video about English.

What do you do?

I'm an English teacher.

Do you see the difference?

These two questions, what are you doing?

And what do you do?

Sounds similar but mean different things.

The first one is asking what you are doing right now, this minute.

You answer it using an ING verb.

What are you doing?

I'm reading.

I'm watching TV.

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