Objective: The primary objective of this worksheet is to provide students with a comprehensive overview of the life and career of a professional athlete. It aims to enhance their ability to extract specific biographical facts and sporting milestones from a short text and organize them systematically.

Content and methods: The content focuses on the athletes' biography, covering their early life and their career. Methodologically, the worksheet employs a text-based approach followed by diverse task formats: a "My Notes" section for free information intake, a structured table to categorize life events and achievements, and a multiple-choice quiz to verify reading comprehension of specific data and statistics.

Competencies:

• Reading Comprehension: The ability to identify and extract key information (dates, locations, and statistics) from a factual biographical text
• Information Organization: Developing the skill to structure raw textual data into categorized formats like tables (Life, Sports career, Achievements)
• Intercultural and Media Literacy: Gaining knowledge about significant figures in international sports history and their impact
• Selective Listening/Reading: Honing the ability to distinguish between general narrative and specific required facts

Target group: 3rd to 5th grade