1/1/2021
AOK Basic Skills Project
Portland, Maine
kirkjohnb5@gmail.com
W: www.aokbasicskills.gratis
Re: Spanish/English instructional booklet for market sales & a possible beginners’ workshop on how families can learn English together
Dear Director of the Institution:
I’m a semi-retired ESOL teacher over 65 and lived in Ecuador for over 10 years before recently relocating to Portland, Maine in the U.S. I am the director of AOK, a charitable educational effort and my retirement project that was connected to my English school in Quito. AOK specializes in teaching life skills. During the past three years, I have written 20 AOK Life Skill Workshops and before the Pandemic presented many of them throughout the Ecuadorian Sierra.
I recently finished writing a free Spanish-English instructional booklet for market salespeople who work in tourist areas. In January of 2020 I gave a copy of it to the Director of Market Sales in Cuenca, Ecuador. In the Province of Azuay they over 2000 people in market sales.
The booklet can be accompanied by a beginners workshop for families on how to learn English together. To read about the workshop, please look at the AOK website under “English Wkshops” at “Families Learn English – A1-2”.
I’m writing to see if you might be interested in a workshop through Zoom and/or a copy of the booklet.
Long-term purpose of the workshop
As the language study materials I use are not for commercial purposes, I do not charge for my materials or presentations. I share them in support of my effort to encourage the UN to offer free websites supporting themes similar to those in my website.
The “Market Spanish-English Instructional Booklet” falls under UN World Goal 4: Quality education. The UN has 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) to transform the world for 2030. The family English workshop lasts 50 minutes and is mainly for beginners and advanced beginners. I would connect it to the instructional booklet…
Sincerely,
John B. Kirk
kirkjohnb5@gmail.com