An ESP project: the film "Twelve angry men" in teaching law students

The purpose of the paper is to describe an ESP project that was developed as a part of the course for law students which has been applied at Perm State University Faculty of Law since 2014. The paper analyzes the pedagogical, didactic and cross-cultural potential of the full length American feature film "Twelve Angry Men" which educates students about the system of trial jury in the United States. An important stage of the project was focused on creative writing where the students took a role of one of the jurors and wrote a story in the first person singular. Student feedback on this kind of writing project was found positive. The students' comments demonstrate that the learners paid attention to such aspects as future profession, personal impressions and critical thinking.