--- title: Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★ — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★», a lesson of the money course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: This last olympiad lesson mixes saving up, piggy-bank jars, bank interest, subscriptions, loans and scams into puz --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/) [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/) / Olympiad: saving plans and offers too… # Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★ Lesson 42 of the money course of Mova's primary school: 13 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/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/0/) — This last olympiad lesson mixes saving up, piggy-bank jars, bank interest, subscriptions, loans and scams into puzzles where you must do the sum and also smell a trick. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/2/) — Picture a stranger's advert: "Brand-new trainers worth £400, today only £10!" No real shop sells £400 trainers for £10, so they are fake, stolen or a trick to get your card details - if it sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/4/) — Listen past the talk: "I've saved a million quid" is not the number to use, "a tad pricey" may hide a loan that costs half as much again, and when someone says "£5 - no wait, £4" the last number counts. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/6/) — A year has 52 weeks and 12 months. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/8/) — Doubling grows very fast: 1p, 2p, 4p, 8p... puts in £5.12 on the 10th day, and the 10 days together make £10.23. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/9/) — A savings account pays a little interest, told as "£2 for every £100 a year": £250 earns £5 in a year. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/10/) — A free trial turns into a paid subscription unless you cancel it in time. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/11/) — Paying a little each week for a long time (a loan or "pay later") usually costs more in total than paying the price at once. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/12/) — A real prize never asks you to pay a fee or give card details before you get it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/13/) — "Double your money, guaranteed" and "free skins, just log in with your password" are well-known scams. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/14/) — Splitting pocket money into jars works with fractions: from £10, a half to spend is £5 and a fifth for charity is £2, which leaves £3 to save. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/15/) — A "was" price only shows a real saving if the shop really charged it for a good while before. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/16/) — Slang in this lesson: "mid" means not very good, "sweet as" (New Zealand) means great, "yer man" (Ireland) means that man, "grand" (Ireland) means fine, "no cap" means honestly, "a tad" means a little, and "back in my day" is how older people start a story about the past. - ← previous: [Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till/) - ↑ back to [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/)