--- title: The weekly shop and a family budget — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The weekly shop and a family budget», a lesson of the money course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A budget is a plan for how much a family will spend; the weekly food shop is where that plan meets real life, one item at a time. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / The weekly shop and a family budget # The weekly shop and a family budget Lesson 22 of the money course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/0/) — A budget is a plan for how much a family will spend; the weekly food shop is where that plan meets real life, one item at a time. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/1/) — Picture Saturday morning: Mum has £80 for the shop and a list of 20 things that adds up to £76, so there is £4 spare; Ella's £2 crisps just fit, but grab two more treats and the plan is broken. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/3/) — Shops are clever too: sweets sit by the tills where bored children wait, and shopping hungry makes everyone grab extra. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/4/) — When food prices go up, the same basket costs more, so a running total in your head or on a phone stops nasty surprises at the till. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/5/) — A budget is a plan for how much to spend; a shopping list helps a family buy only what it needs. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/6/) — A budget of £80 with a list adding up to £76 leaves £80 − £76 = £4 spare. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/7/) — A meal plan means deciding what to eat each day before shopping, so less food is thrown away; wasting £10 of food a week is £40 in four weeks. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/8/) — Buying in bulk means buying a lot at once: a 5kg bag of rice at £5 is cheaper than five 1kg bags at £1.50, which cost £7.50, so it saves £2.50. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/9/) — Bulk buying only saves money on things that last and get used, like rice and pasta, not on food that goes off. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/10/) — Reduced food has a yellow sticker because it should be eaten soon; bread cut from £1.20 to 30p saves 90p a loaf, so £1.80 on two. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/11/) — Shopping hungry leads to impulse buys, which are sudden wishes to buy; one hungry shop cost £90 instead of £70, which is £20 extra. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/12/) — Shops place sweets by the tills on purpose; 80p twice a week is £1.60 a week and £6.40 over four weeks. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/13/) — A running total means adding up the prices as you go; at £43 of a £50 budget, £7 is left, so an £8 cake does not fit. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/14/) — Different supermarkets charge different prices; a basket at £62 in one and £54 in another saves £8 a week, which is £416 over 52 weeks. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/15/) — A packed lunch costs about £1.50 instead of £4 for a bought lunch, saving £2.50 a day, or £12.50 over five school days. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/16/) — The cost of living is how much money people need for basic things; when food prices rise, a £70 shop can become £80, which is £40 more over four weeks. - ← previous: [Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/21-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax/) - next →: [When money is tight: "we can't afford it"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/) - ↑ back to [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/)