effect on you. People all end up living here longer than they planned. I think it's best to teach in a bigger city where there are other foreigners to mix with, rather than a small town where English teachers often complain of feeling like a goldfish in a bowl. Many people choose to live in Tokyo, of course, which is good for the nightlife factor. But I'd say that for general quality of living, cities of neither too large nor too small, like Sapporo where I live, are better choices.

　　I teach English privately, which means I'm my own boss. If you want to devote yourself to private teaching, it's well worth doing a TEFL course first, because your lessons will be much better for it. The problem with private teaching is finding students; it took me a year to build up a full schedule of private lessons, so I started out teaching in schools part time.

　　Most of my foreign friends here work full-time for big English conversation schools. The salary is fine to live on. But whether you can save money depends on how much going out and traveling you do here.

　　The schools are reluctant to take time off - even teachers with tickets for the England-Argentina game had trouble getting the day off.

24. From the passage we know in Japan the writer likes to live in _______.

　　A. Tokyo B. a small town

C. a city of middle size D. a big city

25. According to the writer, one had better _______ first to do private teaching better.

A. take a TEFL course B. decide his or her own lessons

C. find students D. build up a full schedule

26. According to the writer, whether one can save money depends on _______.

A. how many students you teach B. how much traveling you do

C. how much going out you do D. both B and C

27. The underlined word "reluctant" in the passage may probably mean _______.

A. kind B. unwilling C. free D. careless

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