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When teaching English as a second language to teenagers, every teacher will sooner or later find themselves in a position of uncertainty when it comes to teaching difficult topics. With the vast number of topics which fall under the taboo category, teachers have to find ways to present and teach those delicate topics. Such topics include the classic controversial topics such as religion, politics and sex, but also social issues like homophobia, substance abuse, mental illnesses, etc., and last but not least, one of the most prominent issues: racial injustice. As the USA and other English-speaking countries battle the issues of racial injustices, such as Black Lives Matter movements that came forward in the past few years, the issues of racial inequality have once again come to the forefront of global discussions. Since the English language adopted its status of lingua franca, EFL classes all around the world receive the need and opportunity to cover this ongoing issue. Any school discussion about injustice and discrimination is difficult to initiate due to the themes that may trigger students’ emotional reactions. The usage of films to help teach about challenging topics such as racism may be a good tool to illustrate difficult themes and historical events and figures through compelling medium students already enjoy in their free time. A short survey shows that Slovene secondary school students are interested in racial topics and would likely be motivated to learn about them through a systematic approach of using the film in EFL. In order to assess the advantages of film in the classroom, relevant sources have been analyzed to prove the claims that film can be a good teaching medium, due to its visual and audio input, which builds a solid context relating to the topic it addresses. This often results in triggering an emotional response and subsequently raising students’ motivational levels regarding the issues it touches. This thesis exemplifies nine films dealing with racial topics as well as examples of classroom activities that can be adapted to suit a multitude of films about racial injustice. Using a selected film material, a lesson on racial injustice was conducted in class to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of using film in class. While some disadvantages were discovered, the positive aspects outweigh the negatives. Therefore, films dealing with racial themes can be beneficial to use in EFL classes as they bring the challenging topic closer to students through visually compelling media. Pri poučevanju angleščine kot tujega jezika se učitelji prej ali slej znajdejo pred dilemo, ko pride do poučevanja občutljivih tem. Z veliko količino tem, ki so znane kot tabu teme, imajo učitelji nalogo predstaviti in učiti te tematike na čim bolj primeren način. Pod tabu teme spadajo klasične kontroverzne teme kot so religija, politika in spolnost, kot tudi družbene težave kot so homofobija, zloraba substanc, duševne bolezni, ipd., ter ena izmed najbolj prisotnih težav v angleško govorečih državah rasna neenakost. V času, ko se Združene države Amerike ter ostale angleško govoreče države spopadajo s problematiko rasne krivice, na primer z gibanjem Black Lives Matter, je diskusija o rasni neenakosti ponovno postala aktualna tema svetovnih razprav. Ker je angleščina globalni jezik, se obravnava te pereče teme pri pouku angleščine kot tujega jezika kaže kot potreba in priložnost. Vsaka diskusija o neenakosti in diskriminaciji k pouku prinaša svoje izzive, saj naslavlja teme, ki lahko pri dijakih in učencih sprožijo negativne čustvene odzive. Uporaba filma je lahko dober način, kako dijakom predstaviti zahtevne teme, kot je rasizem, zgodovinske dogodke in osebe skozi zanimiv medij, v katerem dijaki uživajo tudi v prostem času. Krajša anketa je pokazala, da slovenski dijaki o rasizmu radi razpravljajo in da bi bili za diskusijo še bolj motivirani, če bi kot učni pripomoček pri učenju o rasizmu uporabili film. Za oceno pozitivnih in negativnih vidikov uporabe filma pri pouku sem analizirala več relevantnih virov, ki se v večini strinjajo, da je film koristen učni medij, saj preko vizualnih in slušnih čutil dobro ponazarja kontekst tematike. To pogosto sproži čustven odziv, ki pozitivno vpliva na motivacijo za diskusijo o rasni tematiki. V magistrskem delu opišem devet filmov, ki se ukvarjajo z rasno diskriminacijo, ter pripravim primere učnih dejavnosti za pouk angleščine v srednjih šolah, prilagodljive različnim filmom z rasno problematiko. Prav tako sem s pomočjo izbranega filmskega gradiva o tematiki rasne neenakosti izvedla šolsko uro pri angleščini na srednji šoli. Čeprav sem pri uporabi filma odkrila nekaj slabosti, jih pozitivni vidiki pri poučevanju občutljivih tem odtehtajo. Filmi, ki se ukvarjajo z rasno tematiko, so torej koristni za uporabo pri pouku angleščine kot tujega jezika, saj dijakom približajo zahtevne in občutljive teme skozi zanimiv medij.