If kids don’t give you cute answers in PQA, then TELL them what is going down in class. I call it PSA – Personalized Statements and Answers – and I do it all the time. It works with flat classes because our students are children and need to be told sometimes.
Thus, if you ask, as you try to get some reps on “had warned” and “become” (two structures from “Don’t Drink the V-8” by Anne Matava), instead of asking if anyone had warned anyone, which is kind of awkward, you just say:
Class, (student in class) I had warned Erik yesterday to not sleep in class (not true, Erik is a superstar) and he became angry!
Why leave that? Stay on it and get thirty reps using just that one sentence! And you never had to ask a question.
So, if PQA doesn’t work, use PSA.