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Teaching intercultural competence in EFL classes is the focus of this article. Grammatical proficiency, communicative proficiency, language proficiency, and cultural proficiency are all components of learning a foreign language. Understanding another country’s conventions, cultures, beliefs, and philosophical systems is known as having cultural competence