1/14/2017

The Fortune Cookie (2)

In Chinese restaurants in the United States, it's standard to receive fortune cookies with your bill [1]. A fortune cookie is made from a round, flat piece of dough [2] that is folded over [3] in half and bent [4], like in the picture below. It's sweet and crunchy. 




Each fortune cookie has a slip of paper [5] inside with a proverb, a piece of advice or a fortune [6] written on it, hence [7] the name, fortune cookie. On my last visit to an American Chinese restaurant, I received the following fortunes: 


The sentences in these fortunes don't make sense [8]. How do you think they should be  written? The answer is in the comments below.

[1] cuenta, [2] masa, [3] plegado, [4] doblado, [5] papelito, [6] predicción, [7] de ahí, [8] tener sentido

1 comment:

Adam Yerman said...

"The food here tasteS so, even a cave man likes it."
Since "food" is uncountable, we have to use the first person singular form of "taste" in the present simple.

"YOUR effort haS the potential to pay off handsomely today."
First of all, we should use a possessive adjective (like "you") to be more specific and personal.
And once again, we have to use the first person singular form of the verb "have" because "effort" is uncountable.