Angie had an idea that it would be helpful if people shared successful examples of PQA of certain power verbs as per the last two articles on Eric Herman’s original idea. Here is what she said:
I was thinking that a really helpful use of the blog could be for people to do … actually describe the PQA they use. What I mean is that Eric described the PVA but then he gave an EXAMPLE using the word debe-should, which totally opened up my understanding of what he had done and it was only a short paragraph or two. I think it would be amazing to have a catalogue of these examples to go to when planning to circle a verb, to pool our creativity that way. Then you can dip in and find out how other people have circled that verb, and it can jog your own creativity. Could we have a heading for PVA circling ideas/examples?
So this is the place to add your ideas – pls. do so in the comment fields below. If we get a good list going, we can turn it into a hard link or something.
Just to be clear on one point. We don’t have to be the ones to find the magic. All we have to do is ask the questions. Thus, with travaille/works, the kids in my level one class yesterday were the ones who said that Serge works as a stripper in a local strip club, a few blocks from the school. I just accept or reject such answers but when I get a big loud round of laughter from the class I am inclined to go with THAT answer. Just to be clear that we should never feel any pressure to be funny or to think of cool things before class. We can be wide open to what happens and often that is when the discussion is best. I still like the idea of a kind of prompt list in the comment fields below sent in by various group members when they get a good idea for circling a verb. A vous la parole: