Many English families live in flats, but most live in their own houses.
On the ground floor they usually have the dining-room, the sitting-room, the kitchen, and the hall. In the hall there is a stand for hats, coats and umbrellas. A staircase leads from the hall to the landing on the first floor. On this floor there are bedrooms, a bathroom and a lavatory.
In front of the house they usually have a small garden, in which they grow flowers. At the back of the house there is a much larger garden with a lawn and some fruit-trees. There is also a vegetable garden where they grow all kinds of vegetables, such as potatoes, cabbages, onions and tomatoes.
Lots of people live in flats: sometimes the flat is one floor of the house, sometimes it is a big block of flats, when a person lives in one room, we call this a “bed-sitter” ( a bed-sitting room): the bed-room, the sitting-room and the kitchen are all in one.