📌 Teacher Instructions:

Guide your A1 learners through this 8-minute reading activity about the origin of Vienna snow globes.

Monitor student responses and review the automated feedback explanations together after completion.

🎒 Learner Instructions:

First, read the short story carefully and check the vocabulary box for any new words.

Next, complete the 8 practice questions below to test your understanding of the passage.

Around 1900, a man named Erwin Perzy made the first Vienna snow globe. He was trying to make a brighter light for doctors. He put water inside a glass globe. Then he added semolina, a kind of grain. It floated and looked like falling snow. Today, his family still makes snow globes by hand in Vienna, next to their small museum.

Fill in the blank with the correct word from the story:

He put ____ inside a glass globe.

Complete the missing word from the text:

Today, his family still makes snow globes by ____ in Vienna.