"What Russian children want to be".

[Dakar]

"What Russian children want to be". I saw this title in my child's English Student book. This title is given for the topic where children speak abt their future professions.
I have read the topic in this forum where was explained that "What are you?" is not a common way of asking someones job. But that is closed for comments.
So please comment if such phrases are correct to speak abt job or profession: "What do you want to be?" and "What Russian children want to be".

 

[emsr2d2]

"What Russian children want to be". I saw this title in my child's English Student book. This title is given for the topic where children speak abt about their future professions.
I have read the topic in this forum where it was explained that "What are you?" is not a common way of asking someone's job, but that is closed for comments.
So please comment tell me if such phrases the following are correct to speak when speaking abt about a job or profession: "What do you want to be?" and "What Russian children want to be".

Welcome to the forum.

Please note my corrections above. Please don't use contractions (textspeak) like "abt" here. Use full standard words.

As a standalone sentence, "What Russian children want to be" isn't sufficient to make it clear that the answer is supposed to be a job. However, your post suggests that the chapter of the book in which it appears is clearly about jobs, in which case it's fine. On its own, it could elicit answers such as "Happy" or "Rich".
With young children, we might ask "What do you want to do when you grow up?" or "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

The statement that "What are you?" isn't a natural way to ask what someone does for a living is correct. We say "What do you do?" or "What's your job?"

 

[Tdol]

It sounds like a clumsy lesson to me- many would object to the description of other groups like this.

 

[Tarheel]

Aside from being Russian, are Russian children all that different from other children?

 

[probus]

In English we almost always complete the question with "when you grow up". "What do you want to be when you grow up?" is so commonly asked of children that it can be considered a stock phrase.