NIOS Class 12 English: Sunil Gavaskar Chapter 1 Summary of Sunil Gavaskar՚s Autobiography- ‘My First Step’

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Summary of Sunil Gavaskar՚s Autobiography- ‘My First Step’

• “My first steps” is an autobiography of the Great cricketer Sunil Gavaskar.
• He shares many interesting memories of his childhood and cherishes his early days in this autobiography.
• He shares one interesting incident of his birth time.
• One day his uncle Mr. Narayan Masurekar whom he used to call Naan -Kaka had come to see him in hospital and noticed a little hole in the top of baby Gavaskar՚s left ear lobe.
• On the next day, when he came to the hospital again he was shocked to see, the little hole was missing.
• Everyone rushed to search for the baby and finally the baby was found sleeping peacefully near the Fisherwoman.
• This way Gavaskar was saved being exchanged with some other child due to his birth mark noticed by his uncle.
• He imagines that if his uncle did not save him that day so he would be probably a fisherman instead of a cricketer.
• Further, he says that he was very fond of playing cricket since childhood and cricket was his passion.
• He expresses that he used to play cricket in childhood with his mother in a small gallery of his house and developed a keen interest for cricket since then.
• He shares with readers that his father was also a good club cricketer in his days so cricket was in his blood and he naturally developed an inclination towards playing cricket.
• He in facts writes that his mother was the first person to take him into the world of cricket.
• He also recalls his uncle, Madhav Mantri, a cricketer who played four official tests for India.
• He tells us that he used to go his uncle house frequently and played cricket.
• He loved to wear his uncle pullovers and caress them with a sense of longing.
• He discusses that he was highly inspired by his uncle who taught him to work hard and sweat to earn distinction instead of living on fantasy and imagination only.
• He learned from him that that there is no short cut to reach destination.
• He loves to see his uncle trophies and the stump bearing the autographs of the 1952 India and England teams and autograph of every player.
• He truly wished to become a batsman.
• He tells whenever he got out, he used to fight with the boys.
• They even used to curse his names.
• He used to fight and takes his bat and ball to his home.
• The boys decided whenever Sunil bats, they would appeal at a particular ball for getting out.
• All boys had to do because during those days no one had a bat or ball.
• Gavaskar also mentions his childhood friends with whom he had developed a strong bonding and played many matches and won cash prize.
• He particularly mentions the names of his friends, Ambaye brothers, the Manjrekar brothers and several others with whom he made up teams.

Grammar

• New words are formed in many ways.
• We can make new words by adding prefix and suffix in the words.

Prefix Examples:

Suffixes Examples:

Compound Words

• Compounds words are formed when two or more separate words are joined together.
• This creates a brand-new word that often has a new meaning and called compound words.
• Example of Compound Words:
  • Star and Fish = Starfish
  • Cow and Boy = Cowboy
  • Play and Ground = Playground
  • Butter and fly = Butterfly

Simple Past Tense

• The Simple past tense is formed by adding ed or d to the verb in its bare form.
• It shows that actions were completed in the past or happened in the past.
• For example:
  • work becomes worked
  • create becomes created
  • want becomes wanted
• Irregular verbs like ‘go’ , ‘come’ , ‘see’ , ‘find’ , etc. and ‘be’ and ‘have’ form their past tense in other ways.

The Negative

• The negative of both regular and irregular verbs that are used in past tense is formed with did not + verb without changing the form of the verb.
• For example:
  • He did not see the movie.

The Interrogative

• The Interrogative is formed by changing the position of ‘did’ and placing it before the subject.
• Note that the main verb does not change its form.
• For example
  • Did he see the movie? ( ‘he’ is the subject)

Note- Making

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• Notes should be comprehensive, clear, correct and brief.
• The language of notes should be simple and grammatically correct.
• Examples and quotations are dropped in notes. Lastly, good notes are made in point form.