President Moshe Qatzav Israel

World Leaders

PM John Howard Australia President Moshe Qatzav Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Israel Chairman Kim Jung-iL North Korea President George W. Bush USA PM Tony Blair United Kingdom President Jacques Chirac France President Horst Koehler Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel Germany President Thabo Mbeki South Africa President Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe Head of State: Emperor Akihito Japan Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Japan President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iran President Jalal Talabani Iraq President Perzev Musharref Pakistan President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Indonesia PM Helen Clark New Zealand President Alejandro Toledo Peru President Xanana Gusmao East Timor Head of state: Hamid Karzai Afghanistan Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare Papua New Guinea President Mwai Kibaki Kenya Head of State Colonel Muammar Gaddafi Libya President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir Sudan Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare Solomon Islands President Idriss Deby Chad President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak Egypt President Olusegun Obasanjo Nigeria President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah Sierra Leone Prime Minister Stephen Harper Canada President Vicente Fox Mexico President APJ Abdul Kalam India President General Emile Lahoud Lebanon Activity Ideas

1. Cut and paste the names on backs of students. Match the leaders to their countries. In pairs brainstorm what you know about these leaders. Research a leader on the Internet. Develop a class leader database.

2. Create headlines about each leader. Find headlines in the newspapers and on the Internet and compare them to your own. Write speech bubbles about their reactions to important world events.

3. Group and sort these leaders in as many ways as you can.

4. Which countries have a Prime Minister and a President?

4. What kind of leader is President George Bush? Can you think of other leaders like this? Who are they? Who do they inspire? Who do they frighten?

5. Can we say leaders are good or bad? Discuss in relation to religious and cultural beliefs. How can one leader be seen as a hero and a terrorist at the same time? Nelson Mandela is one such leader. Research his life. Other examples could be, Saddam Hussein or Adolf Hitler.

6. Why are there so few women leaders? Is this likely to change in the future? What changes need to take place for more women to become leaders?

7. What is an interim government? Who is in charge of an interim government? Why? Which countries have an interim government at present?

8. Choose one leader and research his or her popularity. Prepare a publicity brochure or compose a song about this leader, detailing her or his strengths, beliefs and position of authority and support by different sectors in their electorate.

10. Make a world map or web chart showing pictures and information about these world leaders. Make changes to this map during the year, as leaders are voted in or out, etc