diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
index 1dac5e0d8..b9bf67acb 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ You can install httpie using pip:
 
 Finally, we can get a list of all of the snippets:
 
-    http http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ --unsorted
+    http GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/ --unsorted
 
     HTTP/1.1 200 OK
     ...
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ Finally, we can get a list of all of the snippets:
 
 Or we can get a particular snippet by referencing its id:
 
-    http http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/2/ --unsorted
+    http GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/2/ --unsorted
 
     HTTP/1.1 200 OK
     ...