For years I had been using the term “Class, show me…” in English whenever asking for a gesture for a target structure to start a PQA session, but that was before my big conversion to a full on 99% L1 use this year that resulted from what I saw while observing in DPS this year.
Those young stars took the show me thing to the next level by writing the term Show me down on a card in big letters and then holding it over their heads each time they asked for a gesture. Very good idea! That would give many hundreds of reps on the verb by the end of the year.
Here is another way we can use those cards to teach affirmative and negative imperative forms of personal object pronouns, which in French are very gnarly and need tons of reps for acquisition:
Whenever using the Show Me card to ask for a gesture, the teacher uses the other imperative forms as well. Instead of just saying the same “Montrez-moi/Show me…” each day the teacher could say:
Stacey, show Jimmy. (the gesture)…/ Show him…/ Show us…/ Show her…/ Show the class…/ Show the group…/ Show them…/ etc.
This gives varied short daily practice in all the imperative imperative forms over the course of the year. Having six or seven color coded Show Me Cards for each pronoun and using different ones every day for an entire year would go a long way in teaching indirect object pronouns in the imperative and negative imperative forms, and, since the forms would be taught during speech in meaningful context, they would be remembered.