Use of "aller" versus "se passer".

Question

In the question...Comment ________ tes vacances ?How are your holidays going?... I wrote "vont" instead of "se passent". Why is that unacceptable, given that you can say "Comment allez-vous?"? Can you only use "aller" with people to mean "go" in this sense?

Céline Pickard · Accepted Answer

Bonjour H,
In French, "aller" is used with people to ask how someone is doing:
Comment vas-tu ? / Comment allez-vous ? = How are you?
So, you don't use "aller" this way with events or things like "les vacances, la journée, le week-end, etc." Instead, you will use "se passer" which is the idiomatic way of asking how something is going (as long as it is not a person).

Comment se passe ta journée ? = How is your day going?

I hope this is helpful.
Bonne journée !

Cécile Janty-Davies · Answer

Bonjour Harry,
Just to add to what Céline said, as the lesson is about the verbs passer/se passer/se passer de, the quiz questions are testing you on those, so 'aller' wouldn't be accepted. 
I hope that helps!