diff --git a/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl
index 42318fec2..292bf572e 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl
@@ -20,14 +20,14 @@ class ${ProjectName}SpiderMiddleware(object):
         crawler.signals.connect(s.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)
         return s
 
-    def process_spider_input(response, spider):
+    def process_spider_input(self, response, spider):
         # Called for each response that goes through the spider
         # middleware and into the spider.
 
         # Should return None or raise an exception.
         return None
 
-    def process_spider_output(response, result, spider):
+    def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):
         # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after
         # it has processed the response.
 
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class ${ProjectName}SpiderMiddleware(object):
         for i in result:
             yield i
 
-    def process_spider_exception(response, exception, spider):
+    def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):
         # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method
         # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.
 
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class ${ProjectName}SpiderMiddleware(object):
         # or Item objects.
         pass
 
-    def process_start_requests(start_requests, spider):
+    def process_start_requests(self, start_requests, spider):
         # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works
         # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except
         # that it doesn’t have a response associated.