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Unit 13 The world’s population Zhang yanli Words: n. increase, challenge, beginning, square, diagram, discussion, chart, path, Brazil v. increase, multiply, prefer, beg, download adj. used, worth, secondhand adv. hardly, conj. if Phrases: slow down, hour after hour, multiply---by---, grow faster and faster, at the beginning of---, more and more, as little as, prefer to do rather than do, prefer---to---, beg one’s pardon, be busy doing, start with, end with III. Sentences: What’s the population of Germany? I wonder if that’s a lot of people for the size of the country. What can be done to slow down the population increase? Standing room only. There will be hardly enough space for anybody else. When their car becomes old, they prefer to buy a new one rather than repair it. In America you can buy a used car for as little as 300 dollars. I beg your pardon? Choose which car each of you wants to buy. But during the last three or four hundred years it has grown very quickly. He downloaded the information about several countries and made a chart. He wanted to start with the smallest country and end with the largest one. IV. Grammar: The Future-in-the-Past Tense 过去将来时 ①表示从过去某一时间看来，将要发生的动作或存在的状态。常用于 宾语从句中。 ②构成： would/should+动词原形 was/were going to +动词原形 He told me that he would go to Mount Emei for holidays. I heard that the Greens were going to return to England. ③go, come, arrive, leave, fly等用过去进行时表示将来。 He didn’t say when he was coming. ④be to+动词原形表示按计划安排将要发生的事情。 It is said that one night an angel came to Mary and told her she was to have this special boy. Numbers. a million, a hundred million, a billion V. Explanation: Lesson 49 What’s the population of Germany? population: 集合名词，没有复数形式，人口。 ①作主语，谓语动词用单数；表示个体概念，前有分数时，谓语用复数。 The population of China is about 1.3 billion. One third of the population of the city are from other areas. ②指人口多或少， 一般用large或small。 The population of China is larg