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Beings that inhabit them. Houses are like the human Unit 1. The Place I Live In. My Flat Or My House. Victor Hugo Recommended grammar: Structures “12-foot ceiling, 2-car garage, etc.” Future tenses.
In good old days most people would build their dwellings by themselves. Now the situation has changed. Some people buy a flat or a house (they own it, or it belongs to them). When they do this in Britain, people usually borrow money from a bank or an organization called a building society. This money, which is called mortgage, is often paid back over 25 years, plus some interest (=money you have to use for borrowing money).Other peopleprefer to rent a house or a flat, it means that they (tenants) have to pay money every week or month to the person who owns the house/flat. When they do this, the money they pay is called the rent, and the person who owns the house or the flat is the landlord or landlady. Most of London's suburban houses consist of two floors: the ground floor and the first floor. All in all there are six or seven rooms in the house. The rooms are usually tiny, in British houses there are no enormous rooms. On the ground (AmE first) floor there's usually a dining-room, a sitting-room, a kitchen and a hall. In the hall you can see a stand for hats, coats and umbrellas. The rooms on the ground floor are usually quite dark because they don’t get very much sun. They are also quite noisy because they are near the roads and the traffic. Another negative thing is that the rooms might be draughty. This means it is expensive to heat the rooms. A staircase leads from the hall to the landing on the first floor (AmE second floor). On this floor there are four bedrooms, a bathroom and a lavatory. On top of the roof there are usually three chimneys. In front of the house they have a small garden, in which they grow flowers: roses, tulips and so on. At the back of the house there's a much larger garden with a lawn and some fruit trees. There's also a vegetable garden where they may grow some kinds of vegetables, such as potatoes, cabbages, cauliflowers, onions and tomatoes.
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